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Show frVs t, V 'J$t '--.ijr"-V ,.. " 4 qUheh find in the pacific. Derelict Canoe with a Lot of Fish lMekril Up by n Slorclmnttimn. From the Baltimore Sun:' On board tlio Hawaiian bark 'Iolanla thoro Is a curiosity In a native canoo mado by uoino of thq Pacific Islnndors. WhTle on the voyugo from Honolulu last August Au-gust for Hong Kong to load matting for Baltimore an object was seen In tho water tp tho Icoward. Captain McClure changed his courso, and, running run-ning cIobo to it, found It to bo a mammoth mam-moth canoo. Ho had tho ship's car- pontor put Into tho canoe, which was nonrly filled with water. When onco insldo It was almost Imposslblo to, stand up on its slippery bottom. To mnko his position mora exciting the carpenter was seen fighting with a large fish, which wan making desper-atp desper-atp efforts to escape from tho boat. A sharp hook was thrown tho carpenter, and It was not until ho had stabbed tho fish several times that It waB conquered. conquer-ed. When the canoo was hoiiited on board a number of small fish wero found swimming about. Tlio large fish weighed seven pounds. The canoo ca-noo Is twenty-flvo feet long, cut out of a solid log, with rearing onds, which would glvo tho log It was hown from a diameter of at least five feet. Thoro la not a scmblanco pf Iron abont It, but along tho gunwnlcs nro. holes In which lacings of hldo thongs aro used to hold to and for serving the oars. rtnees nro cut out ror the thwarts, which wero mado of plocca of bamboo placed In tho niches whllo wet nnd allowed to shrink. Thero Is also a place In tho bottom to step u mast. Capt. McCluro thinks tho canoe bo-longed bo-longed to como of tho nntlvcs of Bal-Ungtang Bal-Ungtang Island, In tho Bashce group, from which the Iolanl was about twenty twen-ty miles when tho curlouB vessel wan picked up. Tho presenco of tho fish could not be accounted for. |