Show EVIL OMENS OF THE SEA borne thins which a allor to fio on boyf A sailor always regards the presence of a about a ship as a most fatal omen to the sick on board tho highest exultation over witnessed on a man of war according to the boston transcript was occasioned by harpooning a shark that was hanging about while a favorite was sick but the appearance of a shark is often fatal to the life of a bather in the ocean as well as a sailor upon it and it is quite as much to be dreaded ghosts of all sorts and kinds prefer traveling by water to almost any other mode and our own cotton slather tells us of a specter that visited a colonial ship carrying off in a ghostly canoe seven of a crew at a time lie also says many persona who have died at sea have been seen within a day of their death by friend sat home As late as the seventeenth century they tell a story of a ship about to sail for england that had as passengers a strange man and a girl of great beauty so mysterious were their actions that they were supposed to be demon sand many feared to sail in the ship the vessel sailed on friday and never reached its destination but appeared as narrated after a storm that lasted three days nearer and nearer the ship came on with all her broad saua spread the night araw thick but a phantom light around her path WAS shed and the aa on she came for against the wind she sped longfellow also tells a similar story in his phantom ship while all lovers of good music will remember the story of the opera the flying dutchman there is a superstition that a ship no longer seaworthy just before breaking up between the of wind and wave has been known to give forth wailing sounds like moaning the sailor cannot account for this but he knows too well its import and loses heart at the melancholy sound this is also noticed by cooper in his red rover where one of the characters is made to say A ship which is about to sink makes her lamentations juat like adv other human being |