Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

If we had good luck we could work the edge OF
Isaacs and be pretty full by
dark. Then with the wind
holding we would make the -
run back across during the
night and be in time to de- a
liver at the depot by eight
or nine o'clock in the morn
ing Far away upon the i
horizon the Bahamas broke s.
the line and while we ran
in on the shoals we over
hauled the gear and were
ready for work by the time 4
we had eaten breakfast.
Ali the forenoon we worked
the lines, and stopped only
to get a bite of dinner, hav- L.
ing loaded up three barrels w. + ~
of fish, which were bringing q = i sSs
from eight to twelve cents -
pound $3.50
Il don't exactly like the !.
looks of the weather., said
Mccoy my fishing partner. l(2
1t was the hurricane season, ..2l
and we were long way off 49,
to run in if it came on sud-
denly The sun had become
partly obscured by heavy,
greasy looking clouds,
masses of vapor which looked
! !" 4 !: /
so fat and distended that it
seemed wonder they did
not drop into the sea. The 81
glass was steady, however, "a u,
and as long as it showed no n &:
signs of falling we should be ~ 8
tinid indeed to run. The "a
wind was hattening away to
a mere breath, and when we
started to work the gear
again we found could
scarcely keep steering way on the vessel The Sp
fishing sloop, was only thirty feet on the water
and measured only seven TONS We needed on
zephyr to move her, and we hung out all the L
stuff we had to try and ease her along fast enoug
keep the lines off the coral. 1t was no use.
drifted slower and slower, and by two o'clock in
afternoon we had stopped altogether about ten n
off the key.
Forming of the Spout
A HEAVY lump of cloud bank hung low over
~ stream, and underneath it streaming mist
gan to form, looking like rain. Then the mist seel
to twist itself into funnel shaped mass and e
denser. The sunlight died away entirely. The q
now grew more and more perpendicular in sh
and against the sky beyond seemed to be sinl
nearer and nearer the surface of the sea. A Il
thin wisp of heavy spray or rain sank lower,
while we looked we saw the sea agitated just
meath. The water, smooth and hardly strea
with the light breeze, foamed and whitened as tho
some mighty power was either working above
below the surface. We watched, and in a
moments the wisp of vapor from above appes
to touch the foaming part, and as it did SO a he
vapor seemed to rise from the sea and meet it.
another moment there was a connection, t
but violently agitated, between the and CT
ments went by, until there formed mighty p
of apparently solid water reaching full thous
feet into the air.
We.were close to the waterspout, SO close that
forgot our danger in the interest it excited.
could hardly have been more than mile dist
when the phenomena began, and now we were DR.
ing closer and closer. We sprang to the haly'
and began to lower everything We had just got
mainsan down, the lighter stuff coming in quickl
first, when exclamation from Mac caused M
give the sea more attention. l turned quickly,
something seemed to spring into my throat
within fifty fathoms was the monstrous thing
colossal pillar darkening- the sea with its mig