The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
FTlHEN A LAHGE,, HOUND. GlUTlN0UtJ AAJy H [0UED ThOh bIE.NEATh ThE CREWCE

1 ious fragments of the wreck; with his 1 ingenuity as a sailor he made hopeless | ly meager means answer for a truly | gigantic task.
 | His first task was to take down the | paddle wheels. To most men this task i alone would nave been overwhelming. | To this man, laboring half naked oil | q sea rock, 1t was only as a beginning. | Half Cyclops, half merman, he toiled | as Q creature possessed of a devil. Thus
 jn an amazingly short time the paddle | wheels were not only taken down and | apart, but numbered and slowed.
 So far, this poor island fish erman. I who had arrived at the sea rock armed | only with a huge hammer, an ax and a knife, had achieved marvellous things. l Gut of the debris of the wreck he ha {. | made for himself saws, chisels and I files. With these rude appliances ho had stripped the Durande till now her | engines lay open before him. But then | he folded his arms and look ed upon the | task that confronted him; and he per- l ceived that all that had gone before | was as nothing.
 | To dismember that wonderful ma chine, that intricate mass of valves. | pistons, springs, tubes and leters, would have been an appalling task even | for one who understood the mystery of steam and who was well supplied with all the manifold tools necessary | for the delicate work. Gflliatt was not only ignorant of the principles of the
 machine, but he was a man unarmed. He pondered on the rock. Standing utterly alone, surrounded by the i'm mensity of the sea, there came to him | an idea worthy in It's daring of the inn
 mensity in which 1t was born. It was | that, since he might not take the ma 1 cbinery apart he would move 1t bodily lift it from the wreck and lower it | to his sloop, which was to be moved to spot under the wreck to receive it. | He measured the deck of his vessel. The beam was two feet more than the diameter of the floor of the engine I room. The machinery, then, might be | put aboard the sioop. But how?
 Gililatt turned to his storage cavern. He dragged out four great beams. He hoisted them with the capstan aad fixed them between the two Douyres. stretching from one to the other, and | thus just above the wreck. To these | four beams he attached tackles, mak- | ing four sets of hoisting apparatus. | Then he cut four holes in the deck on the starboard side of the engine, and four similar holes on the port side. Eight corresponding holes we're { made under these through the keel. 1 The cables from the four tackle block 8 were passed through the holes in the deck, drawn out at the holes in the keel. The cables from the four tackle blocks were rsssed through the holes | in the deck, drawn out at the holes | in the keel and under the machinery. re-entering the keel holes on the other | side and passing again upward through i, the deck and thence back to the beams where they all met in a single tackle whose one great cable could be di- rected by one arm. Thus the man who I held that one tackle could direct the 1 course and action G all.
 | And now, when all this work had been accomplished. Gilliatt, instead of moving his sloop forth with under the wreck. did something which seemed useless. He fastened ten great nails | into the base of the Douvres. Then with enormtus efforts he dragged a