The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-29
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rock. GiSt.att pitched on the top of the greater of the two Douvres. He could climb to it from the wreck by throw ing a knotted rope with a grapnel to the peak. By this precarious path way of rope he would have to go back and forth thereafter. He would have dared and done more than that for a single smile from Deruchette.
 He slept that night in cavern When he awoke the next morning he discovered that the wind had blown his provisions into the sea. Gil1iatt nodded at the water as if he under stood the token. To him it was the beginning of hostilities between the ocean and himself. He breakfasted on some limpets and set to work work such as no living man had ever to do before him: for 1t was to salve such ship as never had swum the seas before. to take out of her en- zines understood by none, to remove these mysterious things without harm ing them, and to do all this single handed, with neither tools nor gear, and without any food except such as he could kwresq from the unwilling deep.
 His first labor was to build forge in a cavern of the rscks Gilliatt was not only a fisherman. but sailor; not only a sailor but & craftsman. not only craftsman. but a born engineer. All these qualities were to be called on now. With his craft in tools he made hearth and anvil out of stones; with his engineering skill be made the sea winds serve him as a bellows: with his skill as fisherman n he fought the breakers for thousand and one precious fragments cs the wreck; with his ingenuity as a sailor he made hopelessly meagre means an swer for truly gigantic task.
 His first task was to take down the paddle wheels. To most men this task alone would have been overwhelming g. To this man, laboring half naked on a sea rock. 1t was only as beginning. Half Cyciops. half merman, he toiled as a creature possessed of a devil. Thus in an amazingly short time the paddle wheels were not only taken down and apart. but numbered and slowed.
 So far this poor island fisherman, who had arrived at the sea rock armed only with huge hammer. an ax and a knife. had achieved marvel ous things. Out of the debris. of the wreck he had made for himself saws, chisels and files. With these rude appliances he had stripped the Durande till now her engines lay open before him. But then he folded his arms ana looked upon the task that confronted him; and he perceived that all that had gone before was as nothing.
 To dismember that wonderful ma chine, that miracle mass of valves, pistons, springs. tubes and levers, would have been an appalling task even for one who understood the nnys- tery of steam and who was well sup piled with all the manifold tools me- cessary for the delicate work. Gilliatt was not only ignorant of the princi- ples of the machine, but he was a man unarmed.
 He pondered on the rock. Standing utterly alone. surrounded by the i'm mensity of sea, there came to him an idea worthy in It's daring of the im- mensity in which 1t was born. It was that. since he might not take the ma chinery apart, he would move 1t bod ily-lift it from the wreck and lower it to his sloop. which was to be moved to a spot under the wreck to receive it. He measured the deck of his yes- seI. The beam was two feet more than the diameter of the floor of the engine room. The machinery, then, might be put aboard the sloop. But how?
 Gilliatt turned to his storage cav- ern. He dragged out four great beams. He hoisted them with the capstan and fixed them between the two Douvres, stretching from one to the other. and thus above the wreck. To these four beams he attached tackles. making four sets of hoistinE apparatus. Then he