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Show ; A MUHKItM JCMaiI, rom tb rllat time the Uiblleal narration of Jonih'a curioua XerU enoa In tb deep haa been appealed lo aa an HluatraDon of th Butltloua nature na-ture of moat ot tli blatorlaal part of our aacrrd llleratur, aod ven believer be-liever have felt the force of the argument argu-ment of tli other aide on lu la point, rtjme have elmply aaaerlad Ihelr belief In th written word even If It ap-leared ap-leared to be contrary to all reaeou, while o lb era have regarded tb narrative narra-tive aaau allegory. Among th latter ar i.iiua of lb earlltal Klble Inler-preieta, Inler-preieta, wbo thought tu "flab that la aatd tu have awallowad Ih Trophal a peculiar kind of boat In which he drifted te lb tin. re. Now com th French author M. Courhet, In Ibe I'arla Coauiu and con-tanda con-tanda that there la no need of raeortlng lo the allegorical Interpretation, nor to denial, In tha caaa of tb Hook of Jo-uab, Jo-uab, alao well authenticated modern hlatory baa njual y woaderful Itatau laa of delivery fruui death In the deep. M. Co u rbel 'a article la ropruduued in ibe lilterary D If jet of April 4, and la certainly lutereatlug, particularly II lb Piry related 1 baaed on facta. There are principally three ob) toll to-ll una to til" Htbliml aocounl of Jouakt'a miraculous vjyagt: No ''whalot1 ere known tu live lu the Mediterranean; Mediterran-ean; no otuiD(iD,wiiale'old awallow an obeot of the alio of a full-growa hu man Lelng, and no man could live for any leugth ol lime lu th bowele uf the aultnal. To lie Oral aud aeooud up J.cllura Ih rep'y la that Ibe Ulble auJior duet not mention a ''wrialv' i.ut 'a large flth," irai.alated keti lu iu Heptuaglul, whiih may refer lo euy of the varluu apc nieua of Ofta-ceaiw, Ofta-ceaiw, aoveral of wblcb Inhabit tUt MelttfrrBuean. lu I lie Ihlrd bbjecllun M. Courbt-t repllua that It la perfectly potaible.eveti without uilraouluua lotervvntiuu, for a man l live fur tome time iu the atumauli of a tperuiwhalr, aud that tbla baa brao demoi aliaivd. lie re-UUa, re-UUa, lu tupporl of tt la etatemattt, a a' ry tutt autlally aaf Uuw: lu tliu iii Jiith uf Ktbruary, IbUI, the Star of ttia Katt, a wba'er, Ituucntd iho tH-aia tu puraua a wunle thai wea iiottftvud at a dlt-ni. I'.te oreaiur e wm aouu wuunhd l diath, O. a uf the whalt'buolt wa aliatlervd to ph ctt by a bluw troiu Ita Uil, and Ibe imiora were llirown Into the water. All but two were et.ved by the uther b at. The body of uue uf ibe aatlora wiu elo rocuvered, but the olher oiuld not te f utjd, Wlieu l hu huge ammal waa dead :t Waa hulttt'd Miliglde the ahlp, i au 1 Utr work of cutting It up bogau. I 1 in latUd a Uty aod night. Al latt (lie ktuiuaill Wa opened aud, lu tlir furprlneuf all, the It, d mra e, Jaiuea Httttley, waa luuud, uuouutoioua but iut dead He remained dellrioua fur aeverai day, unable to apeak anything luielh. gently, but he giadually reenvertd aud al er three woe It a be waa able to tell ol bin eiperlence. Tula la hla atury ar given iu the I'arla Cotinm: I leuiomber very wall the uiuumuI Wbfl lh wlMle threw t.. ill Ibe ir. I hen I awa.low-Nl ami found myeflf euricd in n Unit, llppTV flieimnl. wbe outrac Inn lnr.,1 tne coiitiiuiallr downward. 'I hie lau-l only an Inetanl. Then I fund wynmlt in a eerr lergAeac, and by feeling alHttii I rnftliKnl iliat I bad leen awau lowed by a whale, and that I waa In bla aimnadi. I rr.iild etlil hmallie. though wlib iniirh dini-nltv. I bad a feeling nt intuppHtrtalile iieai, and ll eeemeri aa if I were bun, bnlled alive. 'I he horrltde thontrhtthat I waadoomed to pnrlab In ih wbale'a hellv birturel me, end inv anulh waa Inteueined by Uieraltn and ainint ibftt reigned aoiit tn: hmally I lo.t tbeooneuiouaneeeof my frltihiful altuatluii. lb liiiglleli paper from which Ih French author haa taken hit tlory addt.be aay a, that Jmea Hartley la known to be one of lb moat hardy of whltnn. Ilia iprinor, however, wat an terrible that he had to be treated In a London boapttal, on bit return. Hit tkln bad btu Injured by tb ao-tlnn ao-tlnn of Ih gaatrto Julo. Caatt where men have len a wallowed wal-lowed by huge tea mnnatera are not tn-frtojuent, tn-frtojuent, but tbla It per ha pa the Brat on record alnoe tbe day of Juoah, In which the victim waa reoud to tell other af hla tlngnlar tperlno. |