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Show whale at tho distance of six fathom. With a backward rush the monster ne:;r!y struck the bout. Tim vapor from his spout came iuto our faces, and the boat, thrown over upon her starboard guuwali was nearly capsized. cap-sized. Down went the whale the next moment, mo-ment, sounding, and away went tiio boat as if drawn by lightning, with the lino humming nnd drumming round the loggerhead, and her gunwales uearly uear-ly on the level with t'e water. Nearly at the satno moment tho storm strtu'k us. All around us the wind howled with ferritin fury, aud the foam and spray, nlmost bliuding u. drenched every man to the skin. Tho ocean seemed oiib mass of white, boiling water, in which the draped boat was buried so often that we were nearly swept from our thwarts, whiio tho tub oarsman, whoso duty it was to bail, vainly endeavored en-deavored to keep the craft dry. Tlit! ni.' had darkened with tho fly. ing rack and feud, which, in torn masses, were blown hither ami thither like phantom (lemons conio to sei.o ns aud drag us down to the depths below. At last tin whalu camo up, and wo h -iii'd old Williams give tho order to "Haul lino there!" Haul wo did, but it was like hauling nlong under tho surface, for thu bout now was almost continually buried. In fact, when wo were near enough to enable tho captain who. according to custom, had changed places with Hindok. Hin-dok. taking his station in tho bow to hurl his lance, thu boat was full of water. Williams, howover, standing unmoved, un-moved, threw the lauce. Tho whale felt it, and. writhinir, turned, makiusr straight for tho boat. ! feeble, describing a half-circle, anil then he died. Cot whale!" cried Uiudok, moving bis iiands joyfully. "Av," 1 answered, "but where is the j ship?" Never mind ship," answered the wild islander, his mouth fairly water-j water-j ing as he looked toward the vast upheaving up-heaving body of the mooter. "We got whit We now contrived to right the boat nnd bail it out, when Hindok lashed it to the whale. And thus we lay, outriding ,n9 storm, far away in midocean, not knowing when or how wo would be picked up. By night the storm bad abated, but there was as yet no sign of the ship. We were both hungry ami thirsty; but every drop of fresh water, and all the salt meat and biscuit, usually carried car-ried in whale boats, bad been spilled out by the capsiiug of the liu'ht craft. We did not sleep a w ink that night. In tho morning still uo sign of a sail. Another day passed, ami now our parched tongues clove to the roof of our mouths. On the next day wo word nearly driven mad for want of water. Hin-tlok's Hin-tlok's wihl eyes rolled iu his head, aud several (hues I saw him fasten them on mo with a sort of hungry look, and I know tho vullure-liku feeling that animated his breast. Another day still no sail! At midnight of tho next dav, which had passed as the others. I lay weak and helpless iu the bottom of tho boat, where 1 saw a pair of eyeballs Hashing iuto my face. It was Hindok, who now canght me by the throat, his uplifted sheath-knife gleaming. Vaiuly I struggled. The point of the knife pricked iny flesh, when the fellow suddenly released me. The souud of creaking yards and blocks was heard right aheail. It proved to bo our ship, which soon picked us up. Wo found the captain and all bands safe aboard and told our story. As soon ns we had partaken of refreshments re-freshments tho captain shook hands with Hindok and complimented him for so pluckily holding on to tho whale. As to tho nien, they gavo three cheers and carried us into tho forecastle fore-castle on their shoulders to listen again to our story of that wild t ide on tiio capsized boat. A'. Y. World. BEHIND MM HORSE. Wo wero in tho Japan sea, cruisiug for right whales. Oitrship was the Georgetown of New Ho.dford, dipt. Williams -nn old sca-;!og, sca-;!og, with lists like the knots of an oak tree and a tremendous breadth of shoulders. This man had tho reputation of having hav-ing captured the largest whale ever caught in these seas a hump-backed "fellow," which on being tried out yielded 140 barrels of oil. The skipper was proud of bis fame as a skillful whale-hunter, which, in 'fact, was well deserved. Ho could throw tho barbed iron further thau most men, and was always cool and ttelf-possessod iu moments of the greatest great-est peril, whether it was during his '"rights" with tho monsters of the deep or with tho angry elements. It was a close, sultry day. Far and near tho surface of tho sea lay unbroken un-broken by a single ripple. A yollowish vapor or bazo had, how-ever, how-ever, for some hours been noticed to -windward. It teemed to rise slowly nd to spread gradually over the blue, unclouded concave ubovo us. The sun, meanwhile, bad assumed a singular singu-lar appearance. It had turned to a liery red color, and was surrounded by ,, ..... a green and blue ring, which seemed "'.to revolve round aud round it. Finally a hollow, humming noise 'was beard, as if some brazen instru- tncntwas being blown by unscoii beiugs fur above our heads. At tho same moment, from aloft, like the wild cry of some distant sea-bird, we beard the voice of Hindok the Kanaka boats! ecrer, who kept a lookout look-out at tho mainmast head. "There blows! There there there ' Llow-ow-s!" "Wliereaway?" yolled Williams, through his speaking-trumpet. At the same moment the sun-browned " faces of all the mon on deck were turned aloft. "Stern! stern!" screamed the captain, cap-tain, ns ho spoke again planting the lance in the monster's body. We endeavored to obey, but a great mass of blinding water, with spray nnd foam, struck us, aud over weut the boat. The last object I saw at .that time was Capt. Williams, seated astride the capsized boat, churning away vigorously vigor-ously at tho whale. Then I lost consciousness. con-sciousness. When I came to I became sensible of a sort of Hying motion, as if I wero being be-ing borno through tho air. I opened my eyes to see myself in the arms of Hindok, who sat astraddle tho capsized boat, which was dashing along through the water, drawn by the whalo. The storm was still raging, and the effect of tho black and scud, with the white, boiling sea, lighted by the ghastly glare of the sun struggling through tho vapor was so weird and singular that for a moment I half believed be-lieved myself in somo unearthly rcgiou. Hiudoic, with his black hair streaming stream-ing on the blast, and his wild eyes Hashing a lambent glare, added to the strange effect of the scene. "Where am 1?" I inquired. "AH right!" answered Hindok. "Boat capsize; capting hurt whale so he uo cau go dowu. All right. We get whalo." "Where is tho captain?" "Don't know. Guess other boats pick up." "How came you to pick me uo?" "Boat strike yon on head. You go faint. Me by you. Mu pick you up and get on boat with you." As I had now fully recovered my sensos HindokL cautioning me to hold on hard to the boat's keel, let go of me. I scrambled along behind him and there we two were clinging to a capsized cap-sized boat in a storm, with a whalo so injured that it could not sound, dragging drag-ging us onward. On, on, on. The seas (lew tip around us, and tho spray nearly blinded us, yet we clung lirmly to our hold. I glanced behind me several times to see the other boats, almost out of sight astern, tossing in the cauldron of waters, their crews evidently watching us. Still further astern, with tho black rack almost hilling her like a curtain, lay the good ship under uloso reefed main-topsail and fore-topmast atay sail. Meanwhile there was the whale, our "oconn horse," drawing us on, his spout ascending now nnd then with the uoise of thunder. Tho sharp keel made our position rery uncomfortable, and yet we were 'obliged to maintain 1 it, as any motion sideways would iu-sure iu-sure the rolling over of the boat, which we could not then hoio to regain. It seemed to me as if tlio speed of that whale would never relax." Away bo went to leeward, now and then rising ris-ing out of the water, revealing hit great body with the two irons sticking in it. I had ucver before obtained such a good view of the whale in motion. Tho vast back of the monster was fully showu every time he nrose front the creamy waters. There was his hump, so thickly covered with bar-aacles, bar-aacles, as to resemble a hillock of oyster shells, with" here and there a broad cut which had healed up, but betokened that this was not tho first time ho bad felt tho barbed iron. It was,- however, tho singular appearance of the huso head widen most iuivressod i mo. Long and ill-shaped, with its dimiuulive eyes, there was something so unearthly 'in its appearance every time it was'lifted up that 1 involuntarily involun-tarily thought of the fables of sea-monsters sea-monsters which I had read when a child and which had lirst inspired me with tho tlesiro for a sea life. Drenched and shivering, the situation situa-tion of Hindok and I was, meanwhile, anything but comfortable, with a rushing rush-ing pain in my head about the region of the temple which told me that I had been struck whuu 1 lirst tumbled iuto the sea. i "Threo points of the lee-bow two mules off a try right whale, sir. There ILIowsl blows! blows!" "Call all hands!" roared the captain. This was dono and all Iiands below came bouudiug on deck. "Stand by the boats!" was tho next order. The boat-steerers young, active fel- lows, all of them sprang iuto their re- -apectivo boats to gut their lines and crdfl iu readiness. "Lower away!" ordered old Williams, Wil-liams, with lijjiitning celerity making ; his way to tlio deck. Tho four boats dropped splashing in-"to in-"to the sea and tho next moment away they weut after tho whale. In about half an hour wo lay on our oars waiting for tho whalo to come up. Hindok stood in tho bow, scanning 'thu ocean with his eagle eyes. Ho was as une-looking a specimen of an islander island-er as was over seen. His frame was tall and supple, his arms long and sinewy, his shoulder of great breadth, and his chest round and deep. "Do you see anything, yet?" inquired in-quired Williams. "Nothing yet see, sir," answered the islander, casliug a dubious glance .:irouud him. Tito bazo had filled all the nir and 'tho sun's light was darkened otiiin- ously. Tho humming noise previously alluded al-luded to hail grown louder, and we could all see a great Hue of white water teariug dowu toward us from wind- l." U I' A Suddenly Hindok. pointing ahead, whispered: ; There, dnt fellow, sir!" 'Your oars, meu," hissed the captain cap-tain through his set teeth. We seized the ours, and the boat elided swiftly nnd noiselessly toward where the ripples ahead showed that the whale was coming tip. 'Wo had not got half-way there, when tip came the leviathau, shootiugstraight from tho sea, bis whole monstrous form revealed, his tins outspread like a pair of wings. A niomeut ho remained poised ap- areotly on the very end of his tlukes; ?3su down he came, striking tho sea ?ko a thunderbolt, and sending the pray flying in a white, blinding shower 'til around him. "Now, Hindok give it to him!" tereamcd Williams. A line of steel-blue light wnt through the air, then auothcr, and we were fast. .Hindok had put both irons iu the On on still on. ! - Now I glanced behind me, no more to see ship or boats. All were hidden by distance and tho black rack of the storm. Thu speed of tlio whale, however had now begun to abate. His motions were palpably more feeble, nnd his spouting became weak and loss fro-(pie fro-(pie nt, ami sounded mournfully. "Soon dio now hooray!" cried wild Hindok, as the whale at last spouted blood. t The blood camo every moment thicker thick-er ami slower. The boat's speed uow was nearly stopped. Finally over ont Ihe monster on his side, the" blood now rising scarcely six inches above his siout-hole. Ho swam |