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and the rust-eaten cannon had ourleo
themselves in the sands.
Jewels Taken From the Dead.

Jewels Taken From the Dead.
In the year 1861 Spanish sailing
| ship fitted to carry 100 passengers set
| sail for the West Indies with every
| cabin taken. Among the passehgeXs
were governor general OF Porto RICO
and civil and military officers return
ing to Cuba. The ships course was
far to the south of the Azores but she
was dismasted in a gale, driven to the
north and finally abandoned in sink
ing condition. There were not boats
enough, and 30 of the passengers TOOK
to raft. Only two of the boats were
picked up. The raft came ashore on
the island of ST. Maria after knocking
about for days. On it were lashed
three bodies. shrunken and shriVeled
and burned black by the sun. but there
was a rare find for the heachcomber.
There were rings on the shrunken I'M
gers and gold in the pockets OF the
dead, and besides this loot there were
two or three jewel boxes, Whlch nau
been made safe before their owners
died. 1t was estimated that the comb
err got $50, 900 off the raft, but he reap
ed his harvest and disappeared before
the news of his find became nolsed
about. The next comber who TOOK tnaC
beat was also lucky. A woman's trunk
from the wreck of French steamer.
drifted ashore. and it was believed that
money
In the year 1873 an English steamer
to the north of the Azores had to Jet
tison much of her cargo to save her'
self There came ashore on Gracosa
island clothing, dry goods, furniture
flour and pork to the value or s22'ooo,
and the greater part of the loot Went
to a beachcomber. In the same year
and on the coast of that same island
the sea brought in a piece OF amber.
girls weighing "a pounds. the largest
find Of the kind ever reported. the
stuff sells anywhere for about its
weight in gold.
A Record Breaking Pickup.
In 1884 British steamer named the
Ironsides ran into a terrific gale When
within 200 miles of Halifax. Her car
go shifted and she rolled so far over
that her propeller was useless, ana
abandoned by all hands. The boats
were adrift seven days before being
picked up The loss of the steamer was
duly reported, and the insurance money
had been paid over when she was
heard of again. She was passed in
mdocean by an American ship and
she was riding on an even keel Her
cargo had shifted back, and, being
stanch iron vessel, she was still af1oat.
She would have been boarded by the
American skipper but for the heavy
sea running. A steamer was sent out
from Halifax to look for her, and an
other left the English channel. but
they knocked about for a month and
got no trace. The Ironsides, curious
as it may seem. was sighted only that
once, though she was afioat for five
months and drifted thousands of miles.
One night she drifted into a little
harbor on the south coast of the island
of Pico. A beachcomber got help and
went .off to her before she took the
ground and brought her to anchor.
Here was a ship which had knocked
about by herself for $50 days, meeting
gale after gale, and always in the
trough of the sea, and yet she had not
suffered great damage. She had gen
eral cargo valued at $2200O0, and it
had come to no harm. The derelict
had accumulated barnacles and grass
and needed paint, but she come through
her long fight with the king of storms
in better condition, perhaps, than if
she had carried a crew with her. 1t
was a salvage job of the biggest kind.
and the beachcomber got enough out
of it to warrant him a life of comfort
for the remainder of his days.-New
York Sun. eE.