Show A SECRET OF SEA N TUB THE kar 1819 ivl the honorable east baat india compi com pinya nys ship the star of ln in jadia ia set sail from madras for london M V having haing on board ON over er passengers and aming them lord glon glen ham gen swift lady artwell and her two daughters and other me men and A women omen of note at homo home and abroad aside from her general cargo the ship carried treasure to the amount of the bink bank ers era at bidias midi as figured out that the passengers must ilie hive hid at least among them chho 1 in indian poten paten tita tt on oil his way to be received lec elved as a guest of ronalt had a strong be box of jewelry and gems valued at so BO greit a su sum m that no one dired dared speak it it was inas intended hit ehlt the ship should be con 10 ed as far as the cape of good hope by a inan of war a ai there were plenty of pirate crift still afloat but the gov crement absel met with a biship at set ECI and nas detained somewhere and the star finally decided to sail ball with out her as there hero wis little fear but that she ehe could tale take care caio of herself two tio dys out of madias she ehe was sighted ed and reported but that was the last seen been or heard of her until the year 1864 the loss of the stir made a great sensation cen sallon for several reasons and m hen it aas ft as finally concluded thit that she ehe had been lost arious vessels bessels were sent in search of her and eveir effort was made to ascertain her fite in 1858 1856 a mala sailor who he died aboard of an english tea ship told her captain thit that the star dav attacked and captured by pirates to the south of ceylon and that he N was as one obe 0 the men engaged la in the attack ile he said there were mere five native craft and thi tha the them came upon t the he star in a calm calin and carried her by boarding the ship made a long and I 1 stubborn re resistance istance but was finally captured and the pirates bid bad suffered such hea beai losi that in revenge they killed c ci to the last eb child ila they then looted the ship and scuttled her anil and the plunder was subsequently divided on an island in the china sea some seale people bel leed this story and some said cald it was absurd the general idea was that the star foundered at sea during a heavy gale the dying statement of the pirate waa nas never fully investigated vesti gated for some reabon so tar far as the investigation went it ws proved be a fact the pirates had lane apen se scitt attired red man mere doubtless aci leal I 1 and tho the I 1 lea of bring ng the gang to jIlg tie w is gli gien ell up III ua lis Jin possible in the air I 1 was one of the clew of the english brig tsuie walh waa as making a survey sume or of the islands to the nort hast of at ohp chagos group at ag we were pull ing into land one d ty ly with ith seven men in the boit we me etc in the surf and only two to of uri ug escaped death MY M tomp anlon was a savor salvor named will wal ac aci an all I 1 while iq in it a half drowned suite state we se afie ole swept along the coast of thelstan thel theis lani 1 I 1 by a clinent and finally finall thrown on shore in a bit of a k boat put off atom tho the brig as aa soon as the delsas ter mati noticed but only two bodies wire I 1 ahe lie three others were pulled down by the sharks before the boat go to them believing this to have been the file aad fate of all lie no search wac ac made for the pair of ug i cast ashore and beffie we had ered from out exhaustion and prep prepared ired a signal the brig had foi an other mid fuld the alie island on which we were cast ie ic one of a group of nine and the innermost one of all it Is likely tile the sime toda as aa then having plenty water most of ll it covered with verdure and wild fruits shrimps scrimps and shellfish so go plentiful that it a shipwrecked crow crew ot or twenty monty men could get along there for months walle walice and I 1 CIO Inell inclined ned to look upon the affair as a lark 0 o e erected a hut in the woo wools IS proud od firc b rubbing two dry sticks together an I 1 after a thoi thorough ough exploration of our domain which was not over mer two miles across in an direction we slept ate and talked and had a pretty easa time of it we had been on the island about three months when we me awoke one morning to find the ba afa b a like a sheet of gliss ind the air as still as death the sky shy was 0 overcast erenst and et of a LOP cop pary color and the birds on the islan I 1 appeared to be in great alarm GI k it flocks of them carne came in from the sea and all along shore the fiali were vero leip ing out of the water as it if it were pot pol after sur surveying eying things for a while wallace aldaco al laco gave gage it as hla his opinion that we were in for a typhoon or an earthquake the wilp hury smell in the air ine inclined linel him to the latter and as ai soon ns lis we had eaten we started for the center of the inland there was a high hill in tho the center bate baie of every thing but i t couple ot of trees and a few bushel and wo wi sought it on account of tile the will wave we me knew would surely follow an earthquake eaith quake there was more mor than one shock but the first mas the most violent and lasted rhe hie three or four which succeeded bucce eded thrills rather than shocks alic ran through the island from elst eist to west and out to sea and we nie heard a choirs of what may be called ah the Ehr leks ot of distress aiom the blidge with each vibration two or three minutes after the fourth or fifth shock 11 wallace allace stood up and looked out upon the sea to the east and shout ed to me look look the tidal wave is coming in and there s a big ship on the crest of li it 11 I 1 ur up and followed hla his gaze ten miles awaa avva there was a wall aall of water which seemed to lift its great white crest almost to the sky and to reach north arill am south as tar far as I 1 could see riding or the crest was a greif ship with her three masts standing elect and some of the ards across per for the first ten seconds the wall deemed to still still then it cime came rolling on like a railroad ralli oad train aud and al A must most before I 1 could hive counted awen ty it struer the shore shoie of our island and swept across it the cislini was a good vill thirty ty feet abo above 0 m water ater in en every cry part white while on tre hill we ue at least loi 10 but nil all lon i sic save the hill were ca el ed b at least ton ten feet I 1 had my e ee e on oil the ship hip alone it came straight for foi the hill but as the N ai ae e divided it w was as sw swept ept to tie left and struck the airth and aid w was as turned full about 11 hile it it hung ung e the NN abc atc aurs rs passed on and lo 10 at our feet resting reeling almost on a level keel was ft as as strange a sight ight as the aei of a sat sal or e eer cr beheld it m was as a ship to be sure but one had to rub his ees eeg and bicok again and again to be certain of it alere w esaa as the greit lull hull there the three mats ma ts up aloft the bards arda and thero mere ere scores of lopes lopea tr trailing alling like slimy serpents from arom stem eteri to stern and from keel to masthead the fabric was as copied with mud and slime and barnacle and sen seft gras and sl el ell ells and cs as she tested there the water poured oft her decks and out of her hei hold tit in such euch i L sobbing bobbing choking way may as aa to bring the shivers not a word had pissed between the pair of us while N bile the wan wave e raced in and across the island and the ground below us its was clear of the li lit list t water nater before wallace said 1 I think tills this ends it and let us both thank chaill god thid ship was heaved up front the bottom ct cf the sea where she roust must liane have tested bested for a good many 3 ears cars bu but t w wall P 11 hat have e to w wait alt a day or tu two 0 beffie beffi e WP A P in esti gate 11 after a coup e ol 01 hours houis to let this the ground dry out a bit we descended the h hill III to see w what hat ol 01 image had b been een done about one half tho the trees on the bland had bad been uprooted and carried out to sea and of our hue huc not a vestige remained chere was scarcely a stone as large ns as a hen egg on the wand island previous to the wave mave but now we found that hundreds of rocks had bad been distributed tri buted around while the dead fish wore were so numerous that we were hours in gathering them up and giving them to the tide to bear away two hours after the last sheck shack the sky cleared toe the sun came out and by night tha ciol ind was fairly in all parta wa however bovi eer gave the ship all next day to get rid of her and harden in the hot olin enn you at me c pi piard 1 I ared to hear bear of coul courdle pe that rho ithe coved to be tho li it ng loit logt aar tar of india wo we round found tat out ont bel oie wo had beer been aboard of her it a fei of au art hour and later on we hal haj a doen lei iet for believing that tile the dying malav alala had spoken tho the truth I 1 tell von oil that ship wai at a queer sight bight ifer her ocean bei bed had been hundreds hun dreda of ctet deep nn art 1 tho licud covered everything to tile tho dath of a foot in some pi elpel ii pd two llo 01 01 ahlee tin fee neither one of us hal haj haai I 1 of the stal oi 01 her loss but we knew this wreck to he be th that at of an 1111 ve went at it to clear cwi tile the stud and got get ant info her ber ne e wee ere a full week doing and at every turn we came across eviden es to pone the story of the malay nikalay three or four of her guns were iet in place and from the way she ehe had been knocked about by cannon shot it was wag easy to figure that she had made a hard fight and buffered great loss loas of life before she ehe gae in I 1 ien en beffi e w we e begin work we found the augur holes bored in her bottom to scuttle her the groat great cabin and every enery state loom had two feet of mud on the floor and I 1 may tell ou ell thit that we worked laid for four weeks before we got the hulk cleaned out in the mud and among the mold and rot we found rusty muskets pistols swords pieces of jewelry jew eliy cut leiv ci ocker glas laB ware and what not but in actual money we found only 5 sovereigns A part of the cargo had been wool but we ve got nothing Ahi hit ever teer of value out of it indeed when our work had been finished we simply ind bid a big hulk resting on land a mile from the beach and were ere only five gold pieces better off than before ahe pirates ha had swept her clean of treasure plundering the 1 pis is before murdering them and we did not find in cabin or state room so much as a single bone of human anatomy ne e made the ship our home for six months and were then thea taken oft off by a whaler and air story was the first new s received of tte the long lost ship rhe fhe english government sent a man ot of war to the island to overhaul the hill hulk and mementoes of her have hane long been on exhibition in the british museum nothing could be more quer queer than the way wal we ne found her or rather the way she was heaved up by the sea to be discovered prom from soundings made to the cast of the island in 1867 68 8 it was estimated that the greit ship rose from a depth of over 2 feet nothing but an earthquake could have lifted her from that depth nothing but a tidal wave held her bei up tip and swept her to our feet |