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Show QUEER FIND IN THE PACIFIC Derelict Citnoe rlth n Lot of I'lil. floUnl Ui bjr h Slerolmnlnian. From tho jua.t.mora bun;' Ou boart the Mawal.on Lark lolanla there Is a curiosity In a nailvo tnnoe mado by some of the Pacific ialandiM. WlCe on the voyase trom Honolu.u last August Au-gust for Hong Kcng to load mattlns for Ealtlmoie nn object was teen In tho water lo tho Iteward. Captain McClure chanced his course, aud, running run-ning close to It, found It (o be a man-jmoth man-jmoth canco. Ho had the ship's carpenter car-penter rut Into tho tatioe, which was : nearly filled with water. Whin once lnsldo It was almpst Impccsiblo lo Island up on Its slippery bottom. To 'make his position more exciting the ; carpenter was seen fighting with rt largo flcb. which was making desperate desper-ate offorts to escape from tho boat. A I sharp hook was thrown the carpenter,' and It was not until ho hnd stabbed the fls.h eevgral times that it was conquered. conquer-ed. When tho canco was hoisted on beard a number of small flsh were found swimming about. Iho large fjsh weighed seven pounds. The canoe ca-noe Is twrnty-flvo feet long, cut out of a sol'.d log, with rearing ends, which would give the lo? It was hewn from a diameter of at least five feet. Thoro Is not a semblance of Iron about It. but along tho gunwales are holes Ju which lac!n?s of hldo thongs nrq used to hold to and for serving the oan. Places nro cut out for Iho thwarls. whlrh wero mode of p'ercs of bamboo plnred In the niches while wet and allowed to shr'nk. ThPro la also a place In tho bottom to stop a mrst. Capt. McCluro thinks tho ranoe belonged be-longed to fomo of the rntlves of p'nl-llnrtang p'nl-llnrtang 's'and, In Mia T?nho gr'-un. from which the Tnlanl wh ao'it twenty twen-ty miles when the curious vcssM Tvni p'ekrd up. The prpgrrn of tho flsh could nfti be nrco'intcd for. |