Show OLD WHALING CAPTAIN DEAD after life filled with adventure meets end oo 00 land capt william henry hall an old time new bedford chaler with an ad venturous career is dead capt hall was born at oyster bay day L I 1 seventy two years ago and took tool to the life of a sailor when a youth he rose from a man before the mast to the command of a whaling vessel putting out from new bedford and bis his adventures in the years he tol fol lowed the sea covered all quarters of the globe facing death a score of times As a whaler he penetrated tar far into the arctic regions and as the of merchant ships sailed four times around the world he was once cast among cannibals in the south pacific but escaped death by winning their friendship on one of his trips he was ship wrecked and with members of his crew was thrown upon a small desert island for forty days they main life with birds eggs and such sea food as they could get finally capt hall and three of the crew volunteered to row to new zealand miles away in a rowboat after a perilous trip they reached new zealand and returned to the island in a schooner for their mates |