| Show IJ 3 DEATH TRAPS TRAPS OF THE SEAS SEAS Of 01 all 11 the thousand perils of the seas there ate are III acme which H t tail sail tailor IIA II IIO or UT O m fui In ID his mind with a skull kull and 4 ro and nat of which h every e master 4 mariner hates hate the very tery name Filla to 10 seamen and nd passengers alike alUc alike these are the places that no human skill can Dead reader sate safe One e of the Ule worst of aa s a writer i let r In la he the Chicago is it the Virgin 1 rock in to mid mio which tiny haa gathered fathered In III more store Urea and alpa than any other The Tb fillet terror terrer rot of the Virgin Is II that It Mtr shows show tIll and std there Is ha I noth lag I to I lets U how bow near It h may mar be As A no noland land end He nearer m to It than many mar hun hUh hundred died dred d mile there U is I no hO recaps caP no Mad heed headland land to 10 go 10 by hr The rw rock k Is U I completely hidden bidden II and Its it head bead i la some ome ml IK JK fret feet below betow the t bf surface It t is Ia a sort of lof pin pinnacle tick nacle rearing 1111 U up UI from the hut but not lIot reaching to In n the th tare fare of r the Ih MITS waters and lie Its it l b la is I tu to tear the keel right light out nul of or any an that Iha pass paeans oer Myer er It II IIi Iti i Lying hying M d deep T it il i Is 18 hl tn to 0 build lId any n light hive houis on It II et et in n if iI II t j Mt IY could stand IlInd In such a pine f HIM HIll slid yrs 18 t I els seb II hate haie hal to 10 take their han ham Not SuI lon long ago ID It nl lire th It Ilon steamer andla lo to the m only nl t two o 0 hands hand escaping out Jul of 10 and ehr h In is only one hue of 01 a hundred vh time The whole whale bole round the have base bit of r f the ther nick r It Is M littered with Kith lIh ribs MI and dead dealt men mens bones bone Vermin 1 that draw ae eo little water aln that th l they I h pasa paNl over In III safety tel are Iff often 1 nto the rock by b the I hf surge JUrl of at the Ilse I h HH sea md wd the only oal warning the Virgin ei ewt It r K KII gives U I In a very heavy h s swell 1111 ell whet when II In ih the theM sea 11 M breaks with lIh a dull roar VT over the tho Ih Ihrk ruck rk of III long Ion intervals Interval bout about nine nave in III 30 Su 0 minutes A which few fen f pi but dut sailors have hae heard beard of In is the Portland race In th Ih the English li hann l This la is not Dol a shoal or ur mk rank th Ih fury of the see sea Itself th Iho the dan danger ger PI and anti the fly I mai li 1 rom Itself U Is far ff lea lew It The Th ra nu race e Is le I Cruel caused u b by what hI U is ii iian called an In the ht result of f the th channel tides tide sweeping peeping over thi Ihl Shun Mrs bank and then encountering t sudden drop Iro In the th hi wa sea bottom bottum m l the then th thi rr n t l is in i tint that i of r Niagara rapids rapid mull l I HU N 11 N A JN piled a few fen times In open sea fa and the thu track of ship Vessels have h gorP do down don n here he III In a single tide during hi heavy a weather and the Mt lut big tHe ship to suffer urr was wu the t h Georgian a 1 tine line A liter lean steel sailing III bark which foundered foun with all 11 hands hand gable island Illand le is British lying off ocr Sable tape cape p In I Nova ull Scotia very vey 11 near the track of bound to New W York from Europe and the hidden shoal shoals run ran out for lor miles They form a sort lOr of devils hand hind stretched out tu to pick un inn unwary unwar ships and amt one on of the chief dangers Is la I the enormous drift of the gal Rates e which sweeping over our 1040 aoto miles mill send lend a sea a home homp on the Ibe sand sands that would ovid break up the Ihl nary In an all hour If II It II run ran ashore there Ihre Liners Ulner traders brig and allt Itching vessels eMell all allare allare allare are fish ash to 10 the tie 11 Sable HAbl island Illand net lIrt and Ind tea few lle Iles ran 1 be e saved owing to the Ih surf and the th distance from shore Eleven vessels have hate been wrecked kel here In n a Ii single Mingle day and sometimes after tie the Ih scour of an easterly Rule guts dead dedd mens times o are up on the beaches an u If M a real graveyard hid had been laid Id bar by b the Ih sea It Is odd thil thel on ont one of or he the th i worst lor irl t plague lau spots of f the ocean O n should be bo a riser ri Ill Pr r but bul a altwater river bearing ocean oceangoing oceangoing going ships The Th o op 01 i which h Calcutta stands l Ismor Is more mor dreaded clr ded by b than any part of the open seat imi In weather father n anti ami flat calm alm water Ir three great rt vessels vessel have hire been lost here In III a II day ono one of ot them with most of oC her lIr hands aa a 1 well II The nI reason for hi Is III the force Corer of or the t lb tides said and the dreaded wind sand banks bank that are I always alay shifting A ship will III be 0 writ sent out OUI of the tilt channel by II the Ih current ur nt and ground m on on one of the shoals hoal It Is U as a though a d hand reached up through lh water H r and ane grasped her kf k keel l and the th ha 11 are arp once she he nan has caught the Ih 1 that Ihal she will be he careened right over oer and founder Jut just beyond for the current forces tier lIr on n to 10 her beam a 1 rids did III This Thill happened lIa to the great Indian hant lilt hip and UI Mwry after Idler which one ona I 1 rr ih It the want ral shoals in the river Is Iz Isn n ni me men merl Nu u muter master mariner would ven von venture ventur tune ture to ur Ir the but gives up III hM his I at al the tie Sand leads outside to one df of the corps corpa of ot the most mon highly Ili I rained Mined of their thelt kind In the I but liUI ut even they the are not nOI Infallible and often otten ground a II ship and nfl the most mOIl I anxious u part of 01 a large larg vowels vessels v H voyage onge I from England to 10 Calcutta Is II these lint lut I f fw w ante mila In me the calm water vater It 11 take 11 years year U to train Iraln u Ii pilot for lor this Ihl work ork The worst track any anywhere Here In III 1 Kuro uro peon waters waltr far surpassing even en Port lind Ind race In the matter DIal of oC ships and n property lost Is b I at al the till very er threshold of or England The Thames estuary the North Furth Foreland near Margate to Or OrI lord ford Ness In Suffolk nan has the blackest I e urd for f lr wrecks In the t hI whole hol world orIlL It Itis Itu is u not such pitch a dally dall path p as a the Ih race ra e ehul i but hul ut th the enormous normous network of ot sands nd tilling sortie hundred d of 01 square aquaI miles mil of or orI na sea with A ith only narrow deepwater clan chan chann I n nets l between them Ihm pick up UI more ships I I than ti any other uther 1 Sand li Is I always more nor dangerous danler ul than j I roes rocks rO on account of oC Its I great extent ind ud the III absence of or warning naming that It U It Is I there when covered by bJ the tide lid Sun Sunken ken hn sand nd Is II nearly as a bad bail a as pavement II sad 1 id will 11 break brak a tall ships hips back like Uke liken Ilk n 1 carrot In a gale I of wind Just as a aI ase e l I cracked racked a splendid bark bd rk of 01 1100 1700 tons lon the Long loOn Hand Baud last heat year In this very ery ff district breaking her hr in two lIto parts pUI right So 80 bad bat li is I this Ihl Thames mouth tract that Illat In the admiralty wreck wrack harts charts hal the |
