| Show TRY THE WEIRD D TALES TOLD OF lT ARM i LARGELY IMAGINARY se solid barrier against navigation Is ludicrous slight Foundation for ther the r silly sidy stories published iano portion cin of the globes glob ca surface has af crded a richer field lorn fora the imaginative writer than tile the 4 z ar gasso sea ithac portion of the atlantic ocean lying lalif beav between een ag and aad 38 dec degiers north latitude abid 30 and 50 degrees degree west longitude during the recent spanish amor american lean i war some 0 of the newspaper reporters sel sending iding their imaginations soaring wildly over the sargasso sea met stranger visions than thair did milton in paradise or danto dante in tile the depths of inferno A boston dally daily contained contain ei an article anticipating tile the naval battle that occurred at santiago the author giving giving free rein to ills his fancy sald said the battle will bo fought on the northern ed edge 6 of that strange and mysterious part of the atlantic called the sargasso sea it Js ia not generally known that within i a weeks sail frony from i new york is a va vast stand and trackless waste unexplored by sall sailors uncrossed by the stateliest ships a monster mass of boating debris consisting of growing seaweed blooming I 1 ln g and blosso plants its creeping creep ng and twining vines a float island of oc vardi verdure a alm most las large as the state ot of texas forming a solid barrier agali against 1 navigation the spanish commander will very likely use offloading of oti floating I 1 sod to protect his flanks and aird rear from attack it is incredible that a paper would print suell such ludl ludi crous trash that the merest schools school child woul dat 0 as ut terly false another boston dally daily copied from 4 i the buffalo commercial this most ab surd urd account of a barque bacque in passage from rosario to 7 darji C i which it hada strange experience in the well known but seldom visited and much dreaded sargasso sea nineteen days vere ere spent ina in a dasper desperate ate battle with the floating seaweed arid profuse flora we were actually driven back by its force some of tile creepers were tat at least feet long and they seized upon the bowsprit spars davits and every thing into could entangle s themselves any child who ever saw the would naturally reason that it beara bear on oil no part of its surface blooming and blossoming bloss oming plan plants ts the sargasso sea differs alse from bany othor other part atlantic excepting that it is so surrounded by currents that thab 06 alga known as bac eruin floats here in somewhat greater ti es alian e elsewhere it is tilso a section of the ocean lying without vl the range ot of constant trade 1 winds so that sailing vessels aro are sometimes lia bleto become becalmed anu and oneca ii well realize that a carpee carpet of seaweed upon the surface of the water when there is no wind to fill the sails will tend tena tol to somewhat impede a ships progress but a solid barrier against navigation the slender seaweed Is ia not for notwithstanding za the authorities quoted through the sargasso sea lies lids the southern pas passage cassago sago f from rom E europe cropo to america for sailing vessels in win ter an intimate acquaintance of the writer a worthy old sea captain 1 says saya that in iiri isa numerous voyages across that unexplored trackless waste lie he never could have experienced the difficulties described unless lie he hail had sailed his vesel bottom upwards |
