The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19

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4 Il y got passage on ship at an
TCSS East Indian seaport When
he 50, out a long ways on the ocean,
the captain Of the Mary Ann lost his
course. Wei, he couldn't advertise,
so he poked around with stick for
it, and after awhile he hooked it up
again. But when he got it he jumped
off his high seat and threw up his
hands and snaked his turban off and
pulled his whiskers out and knocked
himself on the nut, as If he had rats in
his garrett
Sinbad said to him: whats eating
you? Did you forget to tell your wife
to put the cat out, or what?'
Were DONE" the captain said. "It's
all off. We're done"
Rare, medium, or we'll done?" Sin
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 current" the captain
said.
The captain let's 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
whiskers out. Some guy sets the sail
the other way round then, but the
ropes all breah; and then the current
shoots the ship straight at mountain
that sticks out of the sea, and bangs it
on the rocks there and smashes it.
But nobody gets killed, and the gang
fish lot of provisions and some of
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 time, all
right, all right. You fellows can all
dig your graves now, and say, TIA ta'
to this world. Nobody who gets ship
wrecked here ever ~ets away. Be
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 or
around it, if l get Saryzade right, and
there was nothing to eat on that beau
tiful shore, barring the bones. Sinbad
said it was his opinion that plenty of
people had died there.
All over the beach wherever you
looked there --ere goods of all kinds,
and lots of them were valuable stuff.
There were rubies and emeralds and
diamonds and tiger's-eyes and all sorts
of 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 tnere was a fountain
of pitch, spouting into the sea. Sin
bad said that the whales swallowed
the pitch, and coughed it up again III
the form of anbergris. Say, Charlie,
what a world-beating amborgris fac
tory q man could have started there
with band of healthy whales. Every
time / hear whale cough now l look
around for q bundle of hat stuff.
But the greatest scenic effect nailed
I'D on the wall in that ward was a
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 aid. 1t flowed out of the
sea and into the mountlin, and Sinbad
sat on the bank and watched the chips
go by.
And the water was fresh all right
Sinbad had it assayed, and the samples
gave three per cent mud, seven and a
half per cent. bugs, salt nit, and the
rest lust water 1t was the first river
of that kind that Sinbad had got next
to. and he lay down ON his stomach
and took q long look at it.
Well, when the gang got the stua-
ton sized, they divided up the feed
fare and gave every guy what was
coming to him, and then they entered
q scientific com 9tive contest to see
who could live IL n" the grub
oiven him. I pui Elm
bad. of course.
cherry ripe. and woul