Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-18

should tire Of roasted and brolled, Jack
Burnst. the ships cook, Contrived to
boil some pieces Of goat in its own
skin, stretched upon sticks, with nro
underneath, salt for a spice, and sliced
pumpkin for vegetables.
OF the horns, when carefully scraped
and cleaned, we made very eniclent
drinking cups, In which our rum,
duly mixed with water, was doled out
to us by Hislop, the keeper Of our pro-
vision store,
The eggs OF the sea birds were q
constant object OF search and being
an expert climber, frequently collect
ed great numbers of those laid In the
crevices Of the rocks by the sea gull
and storm-anch.
Our life was one of perpetual expos
ure and daily activity. Though over
powerlngly hot at noon, the atmos-
phere OF the morning and evening was
delightful, and, as these portions OF
the day were spent In hunting for
food, the time passed rapidly, but His
lop's chief fear was that II we were
not taken off by some ship before the
rainy season set In, our discomfort and
danger from agues would become very
great.
BY the time we had been fourteen
days on tho island he was recovered
so far as to be able to Join me In
making an exploration of It, or rather
In walking all around 1t,
The circumference Of the largest isle
Ia only four leagues, but It's shores are
so steep and rocky In some places that
traversing them proved n most ardu-
GUS task.
On the eastern side we found q great
cascade pouring from brow Of rock
upon the beach, The latter was COW
cred almost everywhere by a broad
leaved seaweed the dark and Shiny
tendrlls OF which were several yarda
in length and were termed by Hislop
"the gigantic fucus."
So day after day passed, and, amid
our various means OF procuring food,
we never failed to keep a keen lookout
to ssaward for passing sail; but
none came near that lonely lslet OF the
southern sea.
One morning found there had
drlfted ashore near our hut mass Of
that mysterious substance, the origin
OF which has puzzled 80 many natural
lsts--ambergrls. II must have weigh
ed more than hundred pounds, and
when we threw some OF It into the FIRE
II melted and dlffused around most
agreeable perfume. This marine pro.
duction, which Is only to be found In
the seas or on the shores OF Africa
and Brazil, is alleged by some to be a
concretlon formed In the stomach Of
the spermacetl whale.
On the fifteenth morning after our
landing a seaman named Henry War
rem, who went to milk our goats,
which had been tethered to largo
tree near the hut, returned In haste
to announce that the ropes which had
secured them were cut, apparently by
sharp instrument-cut clean through
and that the goats, the capture OF
which had cost us 80 much labor, were
gone.
"Cut? BY whom" asked every one.
Before we had time to consider this,
Hlslop came out Of the hut and stated
that one of our three bread bags had
also been cut open, by slash from d
knife, apparently, and that several
pounds OF biscuits had been distracted
The strange alarm, and what was
worse, the doubt Of each other, which
these discoveries excited, were painful
and bewlldering
We examined the place where the
goats had been tethered, but could dis
cover no traces Of feet, and nothing
remained but the ends OF the ropes
(the long boat sheets and halllards)
tied to the stem of tree.
ITO be contnued,)