The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-02-13
SAW THE DEVIL
AT MT. VESUVIUS
Englishman With the Long Name Mem
Der of the Grew of Ship Rosalie, Which
Had One of the Stra7gest EXPERIENCES On
Record.

When we looked acreSS at Mount
Vesuvius, there from the top to the
bottom of the mountain stretched
an extraordinary band of light, for
all the world like a great limestone
road, throwing verything out with
the greatest distinctness, so that |
verify believe that if ferns had been
growing there they could easily have
was 10 or Is miles away.
But the most extraordinary thing
was that going up this great white
road was a man carrying another
man on his back, and, if taking the
man being carried as an ordinary
) ft. 10 in. or it. man the other
must have been ii fit. or 16 it. high.
We could all see the face of the man
being carried distinctly. The cap
tain having grabbed the watch Off
GERS binoculars and Mr. Young hav-
ing his field glasses over his Shout
der, | called an apprentice and sent
him down to my cabin for my
glasses.
Ross, the man on look out, de-
serted his post and rushed down in
to The forecastle where there were
three old battered telescopes, waking
up the watch below, who tumbled
up, thus bringing the whole thirty
Of the crew on deck
After watching the man being
carried up to the top of the noun
tain the crew crowded aft and sew
eraI Of them sang out TO the Cap
10 he ;c e.s,,
That is old bully Bates, the Liver
pool shipowner. l have had scurvy
on his rotten old tubs" and five of
the crew positively recognized him
as Bates, the great Liverpool ship
owner, known all over the world as
Bully Bates"
When the man reached the top OF
the crater with Bully Bates" he
stood a minute and then chucked
him into the crater. He then turned
partly around and looked down the
mountain, and we all saw his face
clearly. The light making the great
road up the mountain threw the
forms out so distinctly that without
glasses We could distinguish the
features as we'll as we could that
of a sailor on our own deck in broad
daylight seventy-five feet away.
The man, or creature, or what
ever he was, was about II or 16 feet
high apparently, naked and light
copper color, with a great massive
head and a large massive roman
nose. All agreed as to this, but we
all disagreed somewhat as 20 the eff
feet the sight of his face had on us.
For myself, it seemed a great hui
man head with a big nose, and a
sad cOuntenance that made me feel
badly, but at the same time there
was something there that gave me
the ''creeps" and the nightmare for
six weeks afterwards. Some of the
men declared it was a horrible face,
/ one old salt said it made him cry
| and wipe his eyes, but most of them
! declared they never wanted to see
/ il again; that the face was so ugly
and looked right through them, just
as if it would like to beat their
brains out with Delaying pin.
The captain was so impressed with
the sight that he called the passen-
/ ger, officers and crew together, took
/ the chronometer time, and wrote it
out fully in the official log Can Eng
! fish ship has two log books, one be-
! longing to the ship and the other.
/ the official log, belongs to the govern
ment at the end OF each voyage}, had
I the passenger and every member of
! the crew sign the statement as being
absolutely true as to time, descrip-
! ton, all facts, ETC., but that they
did not recognize the human being
who was being carried; then the five
men signed and held up their
hands and swore that they positively
/ recognized the man being carried as
'Old Bully Bates, the great ship
owner; that they had met him scores
of times; some had cussed him; all
five had scurvy in. his ships.
Well, we proceeded to Salonica,
reaching there just after the muir
der of two consuls-I think the
French and German-some twenty
odd vessels of Admiral Seymour's
fleet from Bessika Bay were in the
ahrbor under Admiral Lord John
Hay, to protect the European portion
of the town. The fleet, you remem-
Der, next year forced the Dardanelles
Germany, Austria, France, America
and all nations were represented by
their war vessels.
After unloading, we procured a
J cargo of rags and bones for Plymouth