The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-02
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more than thatsfor a single smile from
Deruchette.
He slep that night in a cavern. When
he awoke the next morning he dis
covered that the wind had blown his
provisions into the sea. Gilliatt nodd-
ed at the water as If he understood the
hostilitiesl between the ocean and him
self. He breakfasted on some limpets
and set to work-work such as no liv-
Ing 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
move these mysterious things without
harminE them, and to do all this SINGLE
handed. with neither tools or gear, and
without any food except such as he
His first labor was to build q forge
In cavern of the rocks. Gilliatt was
rot only o fisherman. but q sailor; not
only a sailor, but a craftsman:
ergineer. All these Qualities We're ct to
be called on now. With his craft in
tools he made hearth and anvil out of
stone with his engineering skill he
made the sea winds serve him as a
bellows. with his skill as a fisherman.
he fought the breakers for athousand
and one precious fragments Of tho
wreck: with his ingenuity as a sailor.
nc made hopelessly meagre means ans
wer for truly gigantic task.
His first task was to take down the
ra dd1e wheels. To most men this task
alone would have been overwhelming
To this man, laboring half naked on {,
sea rock. 1t was only be glnning. Halt
Cyclops, half Norman, he totled las q
creature possessed Of devil; Thus n
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, and ak and
knife, had aeh!eyed ma marvellous things
made for himself saws. chtsels and
files. With these rude appliances he
had striped the Durande Eli now her
eEg ines lay open before him. But then
he folded his arm and looked upon the
task that confronted him; and he per-
ceived that all that had gone before
was as nothing.
TO dismember that wonderful 8 mas
chine, that Intricate mass OF valves,
pistons. springs. tubes and levers, would
one whom 9unde rstood the mystery OF
steam and who was we'll supplied with
all the manifold tools necessary for
the delicate work. Gilliatt was not
machine, but ho was q man unarmed.
I He pondered on the rock. Stand
ling utterly alone. surrounded by the
Iimmensity of sea: there came to- him
all idea worthy ~ 54tS suAtlHS OF 5the
was that, since no might not take the
mach inery apart. he would m owe Ii
odliy--llft 1t from the s1yreck and
lower 1t to his sloop, which was to 30
moved to a spot under the wreck to
receive ii. lie measured the deck Of
! .hia vessel. The beam was two feet
)smore than the diameter q the 81 DOR Of
the engine room The la m1, =, then,
might be put aboard y, IN STOOD. But
Giillatt turned to his stora &c cavern.
He dragged out four great beams. Ie
Fixed 3 them between the two Douypes,
stretching them ono to the Q the nd
Thus lust above the wreck. no these
FOUR beams he attached tackles, ma kim
four sets Of loistlng pparra w ~ N
Il fc,,t four holes In the deck on tn,
i starboard side OF the en- & Inc, and four
sinlilars holes On the port side. 5ss
4 Eight corresponding holes We're ma dc