Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 26 | Jonah and Whale Story is Outdone Swallows Bag, Man and Grindstone

Jonah and Whale Story Is Outdone Shark hark Has Remarkable Capacity 0 Swallows Bag Man and Grindstone I HONOLULU HONOLULU- Dec Dee 31 United Press Press Captain Captain Clinton Jones vet eran of or the tile Western Vestern ocean tells a t ts s ark story that Is a a. c. I was looking hooking over some o of my old papers the captain said sald when SI I ran across the the- log of th the bark barl Neptune of which I was master in 1877 This records the strange story of the s shark ark the man the grindstone grind grind- stone and the tile child The Neptune was bound from flom Santiago to Boston touching touching- at Cienfuegos Senor Ricardo Ile ls and his two children were aboard as passengers ers One morning we were erG hauling around aro 1114 Cape Cruz when one of the donS don children fell overboard The ship was making makIn six knots at the time We ta tacked ked ship leaving the aback the ships ship's head There was much excitement nn and ana everybody everybody- threw life Ufe preservers cr cc crany crany any gear ge l' l they could ouid get their hands hand handson on overboard I Tho German carpenter even oven threw his glin grindstone stono over in inthe inthe the excitement It took about 20 minutes to get a a boat out but butaU nil all that was rescued was sone of or the gear that had been thrown out The child and the grindstone however however- were t tc not recovered e u S I After about 45 minutes the boat returned to the tile ship The don was greatly greatly- ox excited and the little bl boys boy's Ys Y's sister was in tears Breakfast was wa prepared and we ye had hardly se seated ted ourselves when wilen there ther came a a. cry of Man overboard It developed that the tho don in his grief had bad jumped over the side I ordered everything flat aback abacI and a boat bont was put out but there was no sign of or the don The boat was hauled up again and the ship was put back on her Course ourse but she had hardly gathered way when a tt shark took a hook that was WiS out I r brought the tile ship into the wind with the mainyard aback and we finally got the shark alongside A tackle was swung from the mainyard mainyard main main- yard and bowline was run down and looped over tho the sharks shark's tallAs tall tail As As the shark was hauled on deck k he coughed up what was was- Inside of ot C him First came the thc don and then the grindstone and finally filially the tho boy boy- Tho Tue don was grasping a no long da dagger er and said Cald tho the b boy had hall been turning the grindstone for tor him he sharpened the tile dagger preparatory preparatory tory tOlY to cutting his way way- out of ot the tho h r