xxx RECREATION. 



THE GREAT 



E OF '68 



By Capt. L. Q. Billings, 



U. S. Navy. 



One of the most thrilling stories ever written, and 

 every word literally true. Equal to Bulwer's " Destruc- 

 tion of Pompeii," or Prescott's " Conquest of Mexico. " 



Captain Billings tells the terrible story of an earth- 

 quake which swept away the city of Arica, Peru, and 

 every one of her 12,000 inhabitants. He tells of the 

 coming of a tidal wave 47 feet high, which swallowed 

 up and destroyed a, dozen ships as if they had been 

 made of paper; which carried his ship, the U. S. S. 

 Wateree, 5 miles up the coast and 2 miles inland and 

 left her at the foot of a mountain, where she lies to-day. 



The story, illustrated with drawings and with photographs 

 taken the day after the great disaster, will be printed in 



August 



Recreation. 



Don't fail to Read it. 

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