Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06

81 then we her burst through the door her
, cabin bare footed half dressed, her hair flying
free the dog behind her. karston crept toward her
she hung to the sides of the cabins; but the ship
gave lurch, sea came swapping over amldshlps;
andy the eternal when it cleared she gonei
The Mistassini now twisted over and resting
her beam ends-the deck like the wall of a
house.. That freakish blue light began to light up
the skies-nust have been a reflection from an
aurora. 1t made US look like men month dead. We
saw something shine like phosphorus against the
dark rake of the hills, the face of the Moosehead
cliff Then. wonderful to tell, of big, half
drowned steers came swimming and champlng out
of the wide Matches grim and black devils in that
graveyard glare with bloody rolling eyes and sharp
horns, founderng and sliding down the decks all
tours into the They threshed and beloved in
the water. There were more than two hundred in
the hold that beloved too-for a time.
Look! Look yelled Karston and made Jump
into the sea.
There in the Pickering of that horrible witch light
saw her ahoat right in the thick of the crazy cat.
tie. cnging to one of the matches that had washed
overheard flung her rope; but it fell short. and
the next moment her catch steer by the horns
and hold on like death. We woman and steer
driving toward the shore the beasts crowding round
her. And so they foated off in the sudden darkness
Then pulled karston aboard, crying like babe"
And She lived through all that | exclaimed
turning incredulous face to the Captain.
You We seen her living body in the flesh, haven't
YOU" he asked eying me aslant, and then went on
We stuck like rats to the foredeck of the Mis-
assini. expecting her to slip off the rocks at any
moment to go to pieces under the push of the
swels. One of the deck boats still above water
ana Wnen the darkness l1CeQ toward morning we
righted this and made for the nearby land We'd
cleared the old steamer by cables length
when she began to slip into the sea by jerks.
The currents will drag her off or break her up,
said karston. drag her down like the blessed saint
of woman that's gone!
And that's the last of the Hudson Bay Com
pany's money! said Fifty thousand in Canadian
notes to plaster the banks of Newfoundland,
7 AkSOTOVA ISLAND like piece of refuse
IL land cast out of inferno miles of cold tumbled
stone stretching in the mist and mountains of
volcanic ash with few pnched shrubs and trees and
brook of sulphur water that came tricklng down
to the rocky beach from the heart of half dead vol
cano, in bed as white salt. Right our heads
saw the cliff of the Moosehead lifting, white
skull a moose's skull. We pulled the boat up in that
iends dawn. We looked back at the Mstassni
her fore and mainmast standing short and slant
of the There three drowned bullocks
the beach
There marooned with Tuvak
hundred miles the west and no likelihood of craft
passing in those parts unless the Dunottar Castle
CHANGED to make to Tuvak with load of coal
We hungry she wolves and tired stones
but there nothing but the rocks for beds and
the steers for food. and the birthstone water for
drink We cut up the dead animals; roasted some
of the flesh and smoked the rest. At night we saw
banners of colored flame and redhot streaks in the
sky I'd heard tales of queer tribe of Indians
the island. and stories of cattle SMALL shaggy cattle
like the Highland breed; but there never sign