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CHAPTER XV. 



EXCITING OCCURRENCES ON A WEST-INDIAN 

 VOYAGE, INCLUDING A HURRICANE ADVEN- 

 TURE, THE CAPTURE OF A MAN-EATER 

 SHARK AND DOLPHIN, CLOSING WITH AN 

 ENCOUNTER AND THE KILLING OF A FISH 

 BEARING THE EUPHONIOUS TITLE OF " THE 

 DEVIL-FISH," IN A BOAT ON THE GULF OF 

 PARA. 



A Hurricane Adventure. 



To seamen as well as landsmen the threatened 

 approach of an ordinary gale carries a dread of 

 results, but the stealthy on-coming of a hurri- 

 cane in mid-ocean bears before it indescribable 

 terror. In August, 18 , I was supercargo on 

 board the square-rigged Big Albion, (" square- 

 rigged " means yards on both masts) on a 

 voyage from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to 



