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THE fiBUT MUTINY. A Highlander's Recollection of the Indian Uprising of 1857. Merles Belated s>y a fterceasM r ' * " rd " i><imeihl> x la Make Ike Bleed 1 lulc. No one of the many books describing the (treat Indian mutiny of 1867 has a better right to exist than one just published. It is the thrilling record of the experience of a brave sergeant of the famous " Ninety- third, " who marched with Sir Colin Camp- bell to the relief of Luck now, and who was in active service thereafter till the struggle ended. His story is told witb rare simpli- city, modesty, and unconscious dramatic force, and also with what U not often evident in such reminiscences an effort to be just to the enemy. He has made no at- tempt to set forth a connected history of the mutiny; but bis rough diary of events and his anecdotes of personal adventure give a remarkably vivid idea of the tragedy. The book is full of tales of generous courage and unselfish heroism, such as may well make the reader proud of whatever drop of Scotch, English or Irish blood runs in bis veins. The old 93d, the never-to-be-forgotten "Thin Red Line" of Ualaklava, was, when hurried to India by news of the mutiny, a splendid regiment of 1000 big Scotchmen, 7<) of whom wore on their breasts the Crimean medal of valor. They were of the Cromwellian type, temperate, praying fel- lows, often going into battle with a Presby- terian hymn on their lips. The reuiment was a militsry Highland parish, minister and elders complete the latter being selected from among the men of all ranks two ser- geants, two con-orals and two privates. They were as submissive to discipline as any regiment ia the service; nevertheless, as Sergt. Mitchell shows, they used their reasoning powers like true Scots, and offered suggestions in ths heat of conflict to Sir t 'uliii Campbell suggestions which that true soldier was not at all abova taking. Another n-Riors lU.rsTRATiov of ths relationship between regiment and Commander- in-chief was the fact that Sir Colin in explaining proposed movements to his otlioers sometimes did so in a voice audi- ble to the men, thereby acquainting the lat- ter with his intentions and breaking no rule ol military etiquette. He felt unbounded , u.cii. k. .W.J... J ....-.../ 1.1. "Thin Red Line;" be It recorded that they never failed him. "Ninety-third !"heolled to them before Lucknow. "you are my own lads; I rely on you todotnework !" Upwrat a ringing cheer from tho "lads" and a shout: "Ay, ay, Sir Colin, ys ken us and we ken you ; we'll bring the women and children out o' Lucxnow or die wi' you )n the at- tempt !" While making their way to the Keaidency, and exhausted with constant fighting, they besought their leader t> remain behind while they went on to storm the Shah Nujeef. " \\'a ran be replaced," they said, "but you can't. You muni remain behind we can lead ourselves." Lead themselves they did in -nany oases often with judgment as good as their daring was great. "AH right. Sir Colin ; ws'll do it !'' they shouted, a fortnight later, when be explained to them why they must make a forced march to C'awnpore ; and they did it, though for seven-and-twsnty fighting days ana nignts they had not taken ol their clothes and aocoutermenU and their bodiei roiin 1 their waists where held tight by their belts were worn to the flesh. Sergt. Peter Uillespie, the posssuor of the Crimean ins lal with the foul clasps for Alma.HalaKlava,Inkerman. aad Sebastopol, was asked by the London Times' correspond- ent wben they expected to be in Lucknow. "Well, I dinna ken, sir," said I'eter, " but when Sir Colin likes to givs the order we'll just advance and take it." Mitchell describes ths advance and cap- ture with a vigorous pen. The inarch was made by way of Cawnpore, where, three months before, the terrible massacre of the English ladie, mid children had taken place, the bodies being thrown into a well in the garden. The floors of ths "si.iDOHTKB uor n were) still covered with congealed blood, and littered with torn gaiments and slippers of women an I children and locks of long hair evidently severed by sword cuts. Most piteous ol all was a sight which brought Mars streaming down the cheeks of stern soldiers, and which may be mentioned here as an instance of the hideous cruelty that evoked relentless reprisals from the knglish forces : " It wa an iron hook ti zed into ths wall of one of the rooms of the houae, almost 6 fsst above the floor. I could not possibly say for what purpose this hook had originally been placed in the w\il. I examined it carefully, and it ap- peared to have been an old fixture which had been seized on as a diabolical and convenient instrument of torture by the inhuman wretches engaged in murdering the women and children. This hook was coveted with dried blood, and from the marks on the whitewashed wall it was evi- dent that alitllschild had been hung nn to it by ths neck with its faoe to the wall, where the poor thing must have struggled for long, perhaps in the sight of IT* IIRI.rl.EHM MOTHIB, becanse the wall all round the hook on a level wiih it was covered with the hand- prints, and below the hook with the foot- prints. In blood, of a little child." Some of the wretches tried and found guilty of hav- ing assisted at this massacre were punished in a way which by destroying thsir osite, made death seem to them a trifle. They were taken to the " slaughter house " by the scavenger police, made to crouch down and flogged until with their tongues they lirki-il olean a square foot of the blood- soaked floor. Then they were taken out and hanged on a gallows erected between the house and the well w' re the murdered Knttlioh women and children Uy. On the arrival of ih. id, Id Sir Colin Campbell put a stop to this particular punishment at "unworthy of the English name and a Ct.ristianilo"ernmen.. ' Osn. Neill,"sdds Mitchell, "has been much blamed for this order ; but In condemning the action we must not overlook the provocation. The (Isneral saw more of the horrors of ('awn- pore than I did ; hut vhat I SAW, and the stories which were told by natives who i claimed to have been eyo witnesses of the horrible scenes whicu they described, were tnough to -wake the words ' meroy' and ' pardon' .ni\r a mockery." The n-it year, while Mitchell was ia charge of a nigh-caste native under sentence of death, he was told by this man that Nana Sahib bad intended to spars the English women and children, but that they had an enemy in his zenana in the person of a f Jinale fiend who had formerly been a slave girl. She persuaded him to order the massacre, being supported in her evil counsel by many of the Nana's male advisers, who wished to see him so implicated in rebellion that he could not draw back. His own guard re- fused to do the work, as did the Sepoys of the ilth Native Infantry. Then the fiend- ish slave girl wsnt forth into the city and found tie men two butchers among them WHO DID TUB DltfO. In the war which followed this massacre no quarter was given on either side on the rebels' part through stony cruelty, and on the part of the Europeans because they needed every available man lor the struggle and could not guard prisoners. Mitchell notes, iii concluding his comments on this phase of war, that the European soldiers went through the terrible scenes of the mutiny with great moderation, especially where women and children, or eveu unarm- ed men, came into their power. The rescue of the women and children shut up in Lncknow, with a handful of English troops to guard them, was one at- tended by many thrilling episodes. Every position leading np to the Residency was won with desperate bravery by the attack- ing column, one of whose units was the reckless little soldier known as "Plucky wee Bobs," and now as Gen. Lord Roberts. The natives fought like devils incarnate, in blind fury ; while the 93d, fresh from the sight of the "slaughter house," screamed ' 'Cawnpore! You bloody murderers !" lit! hoarse and mad with thirst brought on by biting the muzzle- load ing cartridges with their sifting powder. They were so inflam- ed by memory of the Sepoy astrooities that mutilation and death seemed to have no terror for them. One poor fellow whose legi were carried clean off above the knee by a round shot in the advance on the Shah Nujeef was knocked head over heels by the force of the shot, "He sat bolt upright on the grass, with THK BIX>Or> Sjrornscl from the stump of his limbs like water from the hose of a fire engine, and shouted : 'Here goes a shilling a day ; a shilling a day ! Pitch into them, boys ; pitch into them ! Remember Cawnpore, Ninety-third! Remember Cawnpore ! Go at them, my hearties !' and he fell back in a dead faint *ml on we w-nu' He was dead before the doctor could reach him. Occasionally the avengers relented, as in ths case of a native who, by cleverly "shamming dead," had nearly escaped. He was still within range, however, and several rifles were leveled at him. But Sergt Findlay, who was on the ramparts, and who was himself ons of the best shots in the company, railed out, " Don't fire, men; giva the poor devil a chance !" Instead of a volley of bullets the men's belter feelings gained tho day, and Jack Pandy was reprieved with a cheer te speed him on his way. As soon as he heard it he realized his position, and, like the .Samaritan leper of old, he halted, and putting up both his hands with tho palms together in front of Irs face, he salaamed profoundly, prostrating himself three times oo the ground hy way of thanks, and then walked slowly toward the Badshahibagh, while we on the ramparts waved our feath- er bonnets and clapped our hands to him in token of good will. About Ghosts In other provinces of the abnormal, snch as spirit-rappings, and noisy haunting*, the early phenomena, since S.">il (wben a rapping goblet disturbed a convent, as ws rsad in the Chronicle* of Richard of Folds), have been very much akin iu modern " spiritual- istic manifestations." This uniformity is, indeed, at once monotonous and interesting, proving either the reality of strange occur- rences, or unanimity in imposture or in imagination. All this agreement of evidence in fact, all the evidence is habitually nsgleuted by the sceptic, who pronounces an opinion in complete ignorance of the subject. It is hy no means necessary that everyone should study the topic ; but an opiuion founded on contested contemptuous nescience is of no more value as regards apparitions than as regards chemistry. When the student has arrived at thess con- elusions namely, that svsn common-sense may err when it pronounces a verdict based on ignorance, and again, that the testimony for apparitions Is not wholly valueless the moment has c >me wben one or other view of ghosts, or both views, must I e adopted, or an agnostic attitude must be assumed. A man may say, " there is something in this ancient belief. That something may be explained by telepathy, by the power which one mind has of producing hallucinations in another mind. Or he may say, " A ghost's a ghost for a' that " a spectre which can be seen, ami heard, and toucheJ, which can lay a cold hand on me, or drag my bed-curtains aside, is an exist- ing actual being, the double of a living, or the ghost of a dead person. There remains the third position which may bo taken by one who is not a complete sceptic ; he may say that he knows nothing about the mat- ter ; iha* apparitions do appear, but that nothing like a satisfactory theory of appari- tions bad been put forward. Probably neither the old nor the new believers oan quarrel with this position, for the facts (as we call them by courtesy) cannot be fitted Into any harmonious hypothesis. [Andrsw Larg, in Illaokwood's Magazine. Blralrr Between lilies. English critics of Canadian life some- times remark on tho "absurd jealousy" that exists between rival cities on this side of the water. Hut the feeling seems to be not unknown in the old country. We learn from the London Times that a Liverpool shipowner was told by one of the leading men in Manchester that he did not c re if thu ship canal ooit another fifteen millions if It only relieved them from the rapacity of Liverpool. At the meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce at which this state- ment was made tliore ware other depreciat- ing remarks about the ship canal which it is difficult to set down to any thing but local jealousy. Indeed, feeling seems to run so strong just now between Manchee'r snd Liverpool that the rivalry bntwefln Montreal and Toronto is not comparable with it. Rut, for all that, we nee 1 not expect the British . i in to lay aside his habitual tons of superiority in dealing with colonial af- lam. DBEAD A ROYAL VISIT. European Courts are Aghast. Tke ftkak ot Ferala *!> i Travel Aaia irro.up. .!<.! b r ! vrlclaml Table MaaBen mirt IsesBewkal KSBkamaalsis; lions of "The shah U coming again ! Good Lord, delirer us !" Such is the fervent litany of the court* of Europe. For it l> announced that daring the present year Nur-ed-Om, the king of kingi, will deiccnd from the peacock throne and make a tour of the chief capitals of Kurope as the guest of the sov- ereigns thereof. To iy that the newi causes consternation is to put the case too mildly. It is a reign of teiror. The com- ing of the shah will have much political significance. Of that, according to the Philadelphia Times, there is no doubt. An. merely on that score it is perhaps well that he is to come. Affairs lire in a bad way in Persia. There if widespread discontent with the shah's rule, based chiefly on the allegation that he is subservient to Euro peau influences. Of this discontent the prietts are the chief promoters. Indeed, the) whole priesthood of the empire is hostile to the shah, and its hostility is scarcely disguised. Before he came to the throne the priests were all-powerful, in state as well as in church, but he has greatly diminished their power and largely freed the civil government from their control. For this they hate him and also for his introduction of various European reforms and his negotiations with European powers. So far, indeeil, has their comity toward him proceeded that they now omit from the ritual of the mosques lh khutbeh, or a prayer for the shah, ami they have actually announced the appearance of the Twelfth Imam. This latter personage is the long- expected mahdi, or Mohammedan messiah. who is to sweep all nnl*lievers from the face of the earth and make the true faith universal He has anaen, they s.y, at Samara, near Bagilad, and is known to men as Mollah Hadji Mirza Hassan Htirazi. All the priests avow allegiance to him and so do many of the civil dignitaries of the Persian court, including even the minister of war, Prince Naib-ee-Sultaneh, who is the shah's third son. Nor is it without omin- ous import that the appearance of this mahdi followed close upon the proclamation of the Ruralan czar as emperor of Central Asia and his formal recognition of Moham- medanism as (he established religion of that portion of his realm. It would be only anoiVT such paradox as history te<ms with for the czar, the heid of the Greek church, to be declared also the caliph of Islam. MKMOR1M OF A FORMER TOUR. Certain it u, at any rale, that the Rus- sian government is in close sympathy and active alliance with the 1'ersian priests in their opposition to the shah. And the chief object of Nasr-ed-l>in's approaching visit to Kurope is, first, to see wn*t aid and comfort he can get from England, Germany and Austria for the maintenance of his throne ; and, second, failing that, to make the best terms he can with Kussiav On these grounds alone there would be no objection to his coming, for England has set out to build a railroad through Pales- tine and Syria to India, or to the Persian Gnlf at the least, and it is therefore) highly desirable to get on the closest possible terms of friendship with the shah. And that end could far bst'er be effected by having him come to England than by sen'- ing any number of ambassadors to him at Teheran. The trouble is, however, that he comes not merely as an important political personage, but as a most oHeneive individual personage ai well, and it is in this latter capacity that he has literally stricken with dismay and horror the courts of Europe, where his last visitation is only too well remembered. His first visit to Kurope was made in 1873 and hu second in IsT'.l He came again in 1889, and it was then observed that his manners had not in the least improved. He still insistsd, for example, on throwing under the table his plates and other dishes as fast as he got through with their con- lentil. Perhaps that is the approved Per- sian table etiquette. But in a sumptuous ly furnished European palace, with china us eggshells and worth its weight in gold. it Is, to say the least, rather trying. At his first dinner as the guest of Queen Vic- toria, in IKS9, it H said, he thus destroyed a thousand dollars' worth of rare china. At all subsequent meals a number of waiters were kept standing close behind him to snatch up his plates the moment he seemed done with them, or at levst to take them from his hand before he could throw them under the table. Kven despite these pre- cautions he broke several things and hit some ol the other guest* on the feet and shins with the dishes. II I. IN.. TOHIIAHK ill- PIJUXDBK. On one occasion the shah was seated at (able next to one of the most stately and dignified royal princesses of Europe. He was helped to some asparagus, cooked in a peculiarly delicious manner. Picking up a stalk in his fingers, he sucked the end of It with evident delight. Then turning to his fair neighbor he exclaimed, "Ha t ba I How good it in !" and thrust the same stalk into her mouth for her also to taste. Nor was his conversation less embarrass- ing than his table manners. Talking with a nobleman at great distinction, he sudden- ly asked : "Is that your wife over there?" "Yes, your majesty." "But she is old and ngly. Why don't you get rid of her and take a new one, one of these young and pretty women T" As he spoke in a tone perfectly audible to the lady under discussion, and indeed to most of the company in ths room, the sen- sation produced may best be left to the imagination. Nor was the scene less em- barrassing when the shah one evening ap- proached one of ths royal princesse* and began to pat and pinch her plump shoulders, saying, "Ah, yon ars ths kind of a woman I like I You ars not all bones I I will get rid of one of my wivss and take you in her place !" The shah Is, however, a* a matter of fact a particularly amiable and kind. hearted man. Kor this he has been noted sinos his boyhood. It is a matter of authentic record that tho shah on a certain occasion was about to set forth on a tour through his dominitns, attended by all hi* court and a retinae, all of whom were actually on the road, when be found his pet cat fast asleep on the identical far mantle which he wished to wear, whereupon be sat down to wait until puss should of its own accord wake np and leave its conch; and that not coming to pass for soms time, the court and retinue were dismissed for the day and the start postponed until the) morrow, when, be it observed, the shah's attendants took good care that no cat again should use the man tie for a bed. MARRIAGE II MANY LANDS. How Ike < alrarl ls Made ad aisw Aa pallet. The Greeks had two forms of divoros ! sending away, going away ; in the first the wife bung dismissed, in the second her leav ing was voluntary. There is apparently some ratio between divorce and suicide, as in most countries a correspondence is observed between the numbers of the two. Darwin says that 490 per 10,000 marriages among ths Kaglish nobility are between blood relatives, and over 19 per cent of snch marriages are childless. A Connecticut man got a divorce because " the defendant would not get np in the morning, nor call this plaintiff, nor do any. thing shs was told." A Michigan wife was rsleassd because ths husband did not provide the necessaries of life, saying "he would not work his toenails off for any woman." A New Vork wife was granted a divorce) because her husband threw the baby at her when she hit him with the coal backet for spitting on the stove. A Missouri divorce was once granted be cause " '.he defendent goes gadding about leaving this plaintiff supperless,or ifhegeU any he has to cook it himself." In Pennsylvania a henpecked husband was relieved from the yoke of matrimony because "the defendant struck this plaintiff a violent How witb her bustle." The moat frequent cause for divoros granted by the Greek Church is "disap pearance." Over two-thirds of the whole number of divorces are granted for this reason. In Minnesota a decree was given to ths wife because " the defendant never cots his toe-nails, and. being rextless in his sleep, scratches this plaintiff severely." Of 1549 marriages contracted in Prussia in IfhU faelWMSl blood r.U >..<., 1|N wro between cousins, 110 between uncles and nieces snd 16 beween aunts and nephews. In California a defendant husband was adjudged guilty of cruelty because hs did not provide water at his house, neither would he repair the haute to make it com- fortable. Insurance statistics have shown that in England, if the wife dies first, the husband lurvives nine years ; while if the husband diee first, the wife survives eleven yearn. In twenty year* prior te 1898 the United Kingdom had ti.YS7 devoroes ; Russia, 31,- 976; France, 57,116; Germany, 93,818; all Europe, 258,332, the United States, 3VS.716. The meanest reason sver given by a man for marrying was assigned by an English- inan forty yesrs ago. He married because Q e wanted somebody to part his hair straight. Divorce in France is regulated by law on the theory that a wife is her husband's equal ; aho does Dot promise to obey ; shs retains her own property and may dispose of it by will. In Kentucky a divorce was ones granted because " the defendant came into the bed- room the morning after the marriage and beat this plaintiff on the head with her shoe heel." Ths Emperor Tiberias mads an edict against the marriage of men over 60 aad women over 00, bnt to strenuous were the objections of widows and widowers that the law was soon repealed. An Icdisna divorce was soms ysars ago granted because " the defendant pulled all the covering off of this plaintiff's bed and she likewise ran a knitting needle four inches into his arm." In France divorce is common among all classes. Daring forty years there were ivorces granted to people, 10,180 to merchants, 12,063 to farmer 17. .'<!" divo professional armers, :;.!. !W:i to laborers. For a clergyman or registrar in England to celebrate a marriage in a private house, except by special license from ths Arch- biahup of Canterbury, is a felony, and pan- ishchle by severe penalties. The Scottish marriage law is so loose that if a lady living with John Smith is ad deseed in the presence of Smith as Mrs. Smith, and answers to the name, the courts have decided that the is legally his wife. Illinois leads the States in divorcee. Dar- ing the twenty years ending with 1 R90, there were 36,07* ; Ohio came next with J6.S6I ; Indiana had 25, 103; Pennsylvania, IG.irJt) ; Nsw York, l.v'IX) ; Missouri. i. >,-:-<. By Roman law a married man having three children was entitled to a better seat in the theater than less fortunate benedicts. A married man having twelve children was entitled to a robs of honor and a pension. Galla< divorced his wife because shs ran about with hsr head bare ; Vetos got rid of his because he saw her talking with a freed woman ; Sophus, because she) went to the theater ; Amillius Paulas, because he did not like her. If a wifn in India is abandoned by her husband, shs waits sight years if hs has gone on a pilgrimage, six if he went to study and tbiee if ne traveled for pleasure, and then is legally divorced and may remarry at her pleasure. C rds * Baste ria, There Is danger ahead for card players. A learned doctor has discovered that or* dinary playing cards are covsred with bee teria, and that 6, 300 specimens of thestapbe baocus pyogenes aureri, that being the scientific name of them, have been found on a single card. Now that begins te look serious. No card player should risk his life | in such a way. A few hundred scattered through a pack of cards would be no sci-ioaa objection, but when they run into the thousands it is a serious matter. A man or woman might win the first prize and yet carry away enough bacteria to stock the family for life. Better play football. There is no bacteria in football, und all the injuries received ars externivL I\ THE FACE OF DEATH. Left by the By ing. Brr e re in th Hands of PltlleM Malays Ail Teal ires *f a MrrbaulesaB la the Calf rilasa. We were standing np ths Golf of Siam, with the) Malay country not over ten miles away, when the wind died oat and left ns heaving and falling on the glassy ground swell. It was the merchant brig Fearnaught, with a crew ot eleven men, aai the captain had his wife and child aboard. It was 10 o'clock in the forenoon when the wind left us, and by 2 o'clock in the afternoon we had drifted to within five miles of the land. From noon to 2 o'clock the captain and nut* appeared troubled and anxious and fre- quently swept the coast line with thsir glasses. At ths latter boar the captain call- ed as aft and said : "Men, yon know what sort of a coast lies over there. The Malays no longer attack vessels at sea, bnt we've drifted in close, and there's not another aail in sight, and it's a greater temptation than they cun with- stand. A crowd of the-ri are pnllin? oat to visit us. If they get aboaid not a man of us will be alive ten minutes later. Will you stand by to beat them off ?" " Aye, sir '" answered one man for all o f us, " but what are we to do it with " In almost every boose in the land there's a firearm of some sort, bnt ship owners to this day will send a craft to the cannibal islands without even an old musket aboard. If the Malays attacked us our only weap- ons would be capstan bars and belaying pins. They were pulling ont to ns in a sort of galley, with as many as ton oars on a aids, and we could figure that there could be at least forty of them and all well armed. It did not take us Eve minutes to get ready. It did not take any man five seconds to fig- ure out what would follow an attack. This Malays never left a witness ot their cruelties alive behind them. FOB A HOPELESS STRCGOL* Yon see men turn pale and shiver at they go into battle. When yon see men quietly arming themselves to make a hopeless fight yon mark the contrast. Their faces flush, their eyes glare, and they bite their lips without feeling the pain. They move on tip- toe, they speak in whispers, they look around them as if taking a farewell of earth. When the galley was yet two miles away our ship was as silent as the grave, though this silence was broken at intervals by sobs from the cabin. The captain had told his wife of the danger. Woman-like, she uttered a sob of despair now and then, bat even as she did so she was weighting her clothing and that of her sleeping child with bars of lead. If the Malays boarded us sks would take the child in her arms and leap overboard. That was settled from the very first. Did the fellows poll a laxy stroke to de- ceive as into the belief that they were com- ing out on some matter of no great impor- tance ? The mate's glass made oat forty- three men in the boat, and their weapons caught and reflected the rays of the sun as they came along. We swept the sea for sight of sail or steamer's smoke, but ws were slone. We ottered bitter caress as we realised oar helpless situation, but ws must let them scramble aboard of the brig before our weapons would be of any use. It was. positively maddening to witness theii slow and careless approach. It was as if they felt so sure of victory that they need put forth no particular exertion. The galley was steered for our port broadside and she was within 200 feet of us and ws could look into the evil eyes of her desper- ate crew when her way was checked. Then her captain rtood up, made as a profound bow, and in fairly good English observed : "Captain, I trust you are loaded with English goods for Bangkok." Oar captain bowed, but did not speak. "Because," continued the other, "iha* i* just snob a cargo as I want aad your brig also pleases me very well. D> you surren- der ?'* "No! Not No!" yelled half a dozen voices in reply. "Ah, you do not ! Do yon wish to jump overboard and drown, or shall I have to kill you aad throw your bodies to the sharks ? I am in no hurry. I will give you three minutee in which to decide! About fifteen of the natives had English rifles, probably purchased st Singapore, and the others were armed with blawguns, pistols, and swords. They needn't come a foot nearer to pick off every man of us. Ths cap ia in and mate conversed for a minute and then the former said to as: "Men, we have all got to meet death right here and now, but let us show them the brig carries no cowards! Be ready for them when they dash in I" 'TWAS TUI HAND or rRovioixci. I think ths first idea was to use their rifles, bat they abandoned it for fear ths Bring might betray them, though, as I said before, there was nothing in sight. Thoss ho had thsir gaas raised now lowered them, the rowers lifted ths oars, and ths long sweeps had just dropped into ths water when we beheld a singular spectacle. The galley suddenly lifted itself oat of water and went up and up until it reached a point thirty feet high and then turned over and came down so broken and shat- tered that it instantly sank* from sight. Kight under the boat was the head of a whale, and it followed it ap for at least fifteen feet. Then the monster foil on his side, gave his tale a flirt or two, and dis- appeared from view. It was like a magi- cian's trick. The time consumed was not oer fifteen seconds. We saw ths boat bows on to c*. We saw her high ia ths air. We saw a few of her planks dashing about on the waves kicked ap by the whale. That was all. But for the half doien MaUya who reached our bows and were killed there, but for the racing to aad fro of the sharks, all of ns would have won- dered if it was not a horrible dream. The wife sat in the obm weepieg and waiting. The child slept on without moving a hand! We looked into each other's faces ; w looked from sea to shore and drwn at ths spllmered flacks floating about. Then ws ''"''I tn * ct >P u ' n 's voice quietly saying : " There comes an off-shore breeie, Mr. , ,. n j you tan swing the yards and il. Tell the steward t* serve ont rov- * ni <* if *> <" n 'l loosen th* tongues cj to s lads and get op a oheer or ws'