Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-27

Nv ncu that blob 1T what caiIc,
nlUnd had Talon srlasliry rs II fc'
some of the men who wcte nearest tn ii
the part that had ~, ned closed again
But 1t only closed for moment fuI
directly afterwHrd il once more parted
aud from it fell something white
something about as big as II duck 8 Cgg
And then, once more. it closed up. job
was 10y now almost beside himself with
terror. but ! was CalmCr, and in ny
calmness ! advanced to that white
thing a-lying there in the moonlight
and picked 1t up, while job looked over
my elbow at it.
"Shipmates all. in this here town. do
you know what that thing wereH II
were bone Of some sort-alas, we
feared 1t were bone Of poor Will Win
ter's. crushed and bruised into pulp
"Slowly let my hand fall and !
knowed now that my face must be as
horror struck as the face of the man be.
fore me, and, slowly followed by him,
walked away from under the branches
Of that accursed tree. And as we
moved off. | think 1t done ms good to see
the light glimmering on the 70 castle Of
the Loving Friend and to know that
in that brave ship there was something
apart from the terrors by which we
were surrounded
The skipper was right, says l, as
we gazed on the ship. both on us most
afear'd to cast our eyes to the tree
We are in the hands of God. But still
there is something here no mortal man
can fathom Mate. let us wake them
though our watch Is not yet run out.
nor their sleep at an end. Better. better
far that they wake and come away
from that tree than remain tbere-bet-
tar
but here l was stopped with a yell
20 awful that the other words was 70.
Ing to utter died on my lips. In mo-
ment we had faced round once more 10
that tree, and there we see what might
have frozen man TO death with fear.
''All the sleepcrs were now on their
feet. shouting and yelline--that 10 to
say, all but one. Mark Deacon, and he
he, shipmates, was Arranging by
one arm TO one of the lower branches
Of that tree, his feet being some dis
lance from the ground, and the branch
itself was shaking violently. But 1t
was not even this that was 80 hor-
rible as 1t was for ms to perceive
that he was not holding on to the
branch, but that the branch itself
was opening and shutting like vast
mouth-though never dropping him
and that, already, It had swallowed his
hand and arm up TO the forearm, and
that 1t was gradually drawing the whole
of his body into itself. So have seen
snake draw in the body Of an animal.
for to nothing else can compare this
hellish sight.
"'Hold on to his legs, bawled, as l
ran mp to him, and some on you--you
with axes and knives-swarm up the
tree and lop off that branch. Lop 1t off.
break it off, do anything. but stop what
1t is about.
''But to lop of branch from tree
that is RS thick round as an ordinary
mans body is no easy task, work as
hard as one may, and, though two men
had already got mp the tree by the help
Of the Others shoulders, and were hack.
ing and slashing away at the branch
with good WILL they made but little
progress, and. as they hacked and slash.
ed, with every blow they made, the
blood poured from the vast cuts until
at last the sand below was deluged with
it and looked more like quarter deck
after three hours fight with a gang
of Sallee rovers than the shore Of a
desert island But at least one good nd.
vantnae did occur from their efforts,