The Kusko times., 1929-11-02

as still as death. I was at the mercy of the men and the machinery. Then I was slung about like rock in a sling. I had struck the reverse tide,
 .Now and then there was the re- assuring voice of the man at the other end of the telephone, and my, how good it sounded. The English telephone expression of Are you there?' seemed to have added signifi- canoe on that occasion. watched the gauge and noticed that as went down the dial went up. When the bell landed on the ships deck the pressure had reached 140 pounds to the square inch. Twas glad the walls of that bel were thick and strong and that it had been built egg-shaped so it would withstand the pressure.
 Turning the spotlight about, saw the wreck Fears and misgivings were forgotten now as my interest in what lay before me increased There lay the .Islander, once one of the best steamers of it's kind afloat. Some of the red paint on her hull re- mained. There she had settled in the mud 28 years 4before, and there she had stayed as the tides had swept over her and the barnacles and other sea life had all hut. deyoured her. "Her masts were gone, only sug- gestion of one stack remained, a few stee stanchions stood upright, and now and then.-a porthole was visible. Her upper decks had long since been swept away. Encrusted with white barnacles of weird shape from eight inches to eight feet through, she in truth looked like ghost ship. It was fascinating to play the shaft of light from one end of her hull to the other.
 "As the hoist swung me to the aft deck over spot known as the glory hole,' part of the ship-usually .occH- pied by the walters and room boys, l was mortified to see scattered about the deck large number of human bones, washed clean, of course, by the action of the water.
 There lay-God only knew who!- and 1924 4eet from the surface, was prowling through their graveyard To add to the horror of the scene,.a. great octopus moved slowly over the pile of bones as 1 watched spell bound The growth of barnacles and shells was everywhere. sRush-like vegetation had fastened itself to the hull. Great fish swan about, some at. terrifis speed. It was not uncommon to feel one hit oe the sidn of the div ing bel with, thud.
 "We kept searching over the after part of the ship in an ecort to find the office, but with no success. Then one day we went to Juneau, l2 miles away, and boarded c. P. R. vessel that happened to be in port, thinking perhaps we might find somebody who could locate diagram of the Islander for us. The captain had none and knew of no one who did. but he did tell us that Chinese cook who was chief cook on the Islander, at the time she went lown had been rescued and was at that moment working in the galley of his ship.
 "An officer took us to see the Chi nese, and you should have seen the Celestiaps face when we showed him a picture of the Islander.
 "'Ah, that ship long time my home,' he said gleefully as he exam ined the picture. Yes, me long time cook on that ship and get very wet when she went down.
 We explained to him briefly what we wanted to know about the ship and asked him where the purser's office was. He knew in minute what we were looking for and told us the purser's office was forward on the