Show STRANGE TALES OF THE SEA lascar sailor spends over thirty six hours in the ocean swimming for life new york july 12 among a num bee of strange tales related by the crew pt the steamship mosa just arrived from japan and china and which reported having run over a large whale a few miles outside sandy hook is one to the effect that while the big freighter was speeding through the red sea a lascar sailor was picked up the swarthy heathen declared he had been swimming three days and nights having fallen overboard from an indian trader bound tor antwerp captain champlin is certain that the man was at least 36 hours in the water before the picked him up it baj about 6 on june 13 he eald we were steaming through the red sea and were three or four days from suez when the lookout sighted something in the water on the port bow the ship was stopped and a few minutes later the chap was swimming alongside we got the sea ladder over and he climbed on board without defay we gave him a wash down with fresh water and a peg of rum to liven him up and then after giving him something to eat sent him to bed he seemed all right when he woke up tho next morning but we could get little out of him except the name of the vessel from which he had fallen overboard and his statement that he had been three days and nights swimming on reaching suez we found that tho ivaun to which the lascar be longel had touched there just 86 hours byford we arrived from this I 1 judge the man baa been that length ot time in the water I 1 sent him to the british consul |