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Show OLD WHALING CAPTAIN DEAD. After Life Filled with Adventure. Meets End on Land. Capt. William Henry Hull, an old-time old-time New lle,f,,r, whaler, with an ad-venturous ad-venturous career, la dead. Capt. Hull im born ut Oyster liny. I.. I., aoventy-two yenra ago. and took to the llfo of a sailor when a youth. He rose from a man before tho mast to tha command of a whaling vessel, putting out from New lledford. and bis adventures In tho years he followed fol-lowed tho sea covered all quartern or the globo, facing death a acore of tlmoa. As a whaler he penotratod far Into the arctic regions, and as the commander of merchant ships sailed four tlmoa around the world. Ho waa once cast among cannlbala In the South Pacific, but escaped death by winning their friendship. on one of his trips he waa shipwrecked ship-wrecked and with members of his crow was thrown upon a amull doaort Islnnd. For forty days thoy maintained main-tained life with birds' eggs and such sea food as they could get. Finally Capt. Hall and throe of the crow volunteered to row to New Zealand. 600 miles away. In a rowboat. Aftor a perilous trip they reached New Zealand and returned to the Islaud In a schooner for their mates. |