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Show The Wind Scraped the Mast Clean. Captain Hurlbut of the British bark Bowman B. Law considers himself fortunate for-tunate in coming out of a terrible typhoon ty-phoon in the China seas, not without a scratch, but without the loss of any of his crew or even of a spar or sail. This is bis experience as he related it: "We left Sourabaya, Java, bound for the Columbia river. All went well for the first week. The men put in their time well about the ship, and one particular par-ticular job that was attended to waa painting the mizzentopmast. This was wood, the other masts and topmasts being iron. I noticed that the paint on the spar blistered more or less under the tropical sun. j "One fine afternoon, under a clear) sky, the Btorm came on us. There was hardly any warning. The typhoon shot put of the gulf of Siam as though it came from a cannon. What in the distance dis-tance was a ripple on the surface of the sea, as it approached us became a featb- ery, foam dashed mass of waves, and the next instant the hurricane struck us. j All sail was stowed away, and we tore ! ahead under bare poles at locomotive j speed. When tbe fury of the typhoon abated, we found everything intact. The mizzentopmast, however, was bare of paint. The wind had blown the blister! off, and nothing remained but the uncovered un-covered wppd." Portland Oregonian. |