The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-09-24


I L. got passage on ship at an
7clxS East Indian seaport, When
he goo out a long ways on the ocean,
the captain of the Mary Ann lost his
course. Well, he couldn't advertise,
so he poked around with stick for
1t, and after awhile he hooked IL up
again. But when be got 1t he jumped
of his high seat and threw up his
hands and snaked his turban of and
pulled his whskers out and knocked
himself on the nut, as If he had rats In
his garnet.
Sinbad said to him: "What's eating
your Did you forget to tell your wife
to put the cat out, or whatT
Were done, the captain said ''Its
oil of, We're done"
"Rare, medium, or well doneg7 Sim
bad asked him.
Then the captain told him and the
rest Of the push that the ship was in
the most dangerous place in the whole
sea.
''And where were you when we were
getting there, Mr. Captain Kidd?" Sin
bad said to him. "And what are we
up against"
We're In a current" the captain
said.
The captnin lets it out then that
they're In a current that'll bump them
ON the rocks in about fifteen minutes,
and advises them to pray, and goes on
humping his head and dragging his
whskers out Some guy sets the sail
the other way round then, but the
ropes all breaa; and then the current
shoots the ship straight at a mountain
that sticks out of the sen, and bangs ii
ON the rocks there and smashes 1t.
But nobody gets killed, and the gang
fish lot Of provisions and some of
p their goods out Of the water, and crawl
up on the beach.
But, when they get through with this
work, the captain says; They've TAX
en- a big fall out of us this hme, all
right, all right You fellows can al
dig your graves now, and say, TIA ia
to this world. Nobody who gets ship
wrecked here ever gets away. Be
cause this is the jumping off spot, and
we've done the jump"
That was love Of place. There
were about a million wrecks along
the foot Of that mountain, and the big
gest gilt-edged collection Of human
skeletons ever gathered under one tent
or words to that effect. There was
no way TO get over the mountain OF
around 1t, IL get Saryzade right and
there was nothing to eat on that beau.
tiful shore, barring the bones. Slnbad
said 1t was his opinion that plenty of
people had died there.
All over the beach wherqCer you
looked there r7ere goods of ali kinds,
and lots Of them were valuable stuff.
There were rubies and emeralds and
diamonds and tiger's-eyes and all sorts
or precious stones, and aloes-trees and
chunks Of ambergris and a lot more
things that were selling for big prices
at Bagdad. 1t was enough TO make
your eyes water, the good things that
were going to waste ON that beach.
Another thing there was a fountain
of pitch, spouting into the sea. Sin
bad said that the whales swallowed
the pitch, and coughed it up again in
the form Of ambergris. Say. Charlie.
what world-beatng ambcrgris fac.
tory a man could have started there
with band Of healthy whales. Every
time hear whale cough now look
around for bundle Of that stuff.
But the greatest scenic effect nailed
up on the wall In that ward was O
fresh-water river that came out of the
sea and went into the mountain. oh,
yes; that's no drear- That's what
that river did. 1t flowed out Of the
sea and into the mountain, and Sinbad
sat on the bank and watched the chips
go by.
And the water was fresh, all right.
kinbad had 1t assayed, and the samples
gave three per cent. mud, seven and a
half per cent. bugs, salt nit, and the
rest just water 1t was the first river
of that kind that sinbad had got next
to, and he lay down on his stomach
and took long look at IT,
Wen. when the gang got the situa-
tion sized, they divided up the feed
fare and gave every guy what was
coming to him, and then they entered
a scientific competitive contest to sec
who could live the longest on the grub
given him. l put my dough on Sim
bad, OF course knew he was
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