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Show ST. MALO'SGRIM STORY. After a Severe Day Siege with Sharks he is Rescued and Brought Home, A THRILLING HAEKATIVE. Roast Pig in the Days of Pompeii Zalo's Opinion Other Juioy Reading. A Temarkable story of the sea comes from St. Malo, the narrator being an ancient an-cient mariner named Bauche, whose painful pain-ful experiences in a small boat on the ocean ought to be a warrant for the truth of his tale. Bauche had signed articles with the captain of a vessel called the Mathilde, in w hich he sailed to Martinique. Marti-nique. While in the harbor of St. Pierre in a boat with the cabin boy one day he was driven oceanward by a gale of wind and was knocked about for a week on the waves before he was rescued by a Norwegian Nor-wegian bark. After the first night at sea Bauche says that the cabin boy became partly delirious, deliri-ous, water was rilling the boat every instant, in-stant, and in order to prevent the dying lad from being drowned in it the old Bailor made pails from the legs of his pantaloons, and was thus enabled to keep the bottom of tho little craft tolerably dry. lie had also to deprive himself of his shirt, which he utilized as a flag of distress. On the third day the cabin boy died, and hardlv was the breath out of his body before seven or eight ferocious black sharks began to circle round the boat, which they sometimes almost touched. ' Bather than deliver up the dead body to the monsters of the deep Bauche kept it until it became decomposed. decom-posed. Being afraid of illness, he at length threw it overboard after having said his prayers over it, and the prey was speedily speed-ily seized by the sharks, who disappeared with it and did not show up again for about twenty-four hours or so. Bauche now felt so utterly miserable that he was thinking of throwing himself him-self overboard, when he was dissuaded from his intention by the reappearance of the sharks, who, after eying him ravenously rav-enously for some time, aotually began to gambol before him, as if in anticipation of a good feed off his body. "I did not want to be eaten alive," remarked Bauche, in his narrative of his perilous adventures, "so I remained where I was and awaited assistance." On the seventh day the sailor lost consciousness, fell down in the boat, and was rescued in an insensible condition by Capt. Paderson, of the Vladimir. In his mouth the Norwegian sailors found what they first thought was an old quid of tobacco, but which proved to be part of the horn handle of his knife, wliich Bauche was crunching to stave off hunger when he became unconscious. The rescued sailor, after having been taken to New Orleans, obtained a passage pas-sage home to St. Malo. Paris Cor. London Lon-don Telegraph. |