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"No tv. fx) A vyrry- ariCTent anh-strll prevalent custom m nrerch.ahf ship s, gto s smj$ the 
equator, is to he©1 haul, and. then lather a:i.(l shayo all novic o-s m 'that To califyp ,out of ' 
p r o fo un cl r © s p © ct for his m a j e s ty If epT.irn-e, wh o is always- pT © s east on• ship toard witk 
a flowing t earl } to' witness the ceremony. 
HoTE.fl") Tire liirtereHm6' le.^end of the Flying hutchmab, is familiar .tcmost readers. 
It rs ‘d favorite story "with marm-ersyvbo often see, or tbihkthey see the unfortunate 
crew and doomed ship he atmjS at out Cap e.Horn.This story', as wrell as, that: of the 
Patagonian brants,'and sea serpent of Hahanhpr oh ah ly on^inatef from Pie rrmn^eyhich 
prevails most an hi6h latitnd.es, an cl which carts es objects to loom, on to appear many tunes 
-larger dram their natural size. In ottr own Bay, in the Autumn, a small si o op. will some¬ 
times appear when a fewrniles distant,to "be larger than aline >of "battle ship-The double 
mirage oftenwitnessed mhi6hlatitudes,will show the linage sometimes mverted hi^h up in the 
clouds.I hare seen the town of Lynn,'Mass, from hahant,wheip it jappeared m.the clouds apuarter- 
of a mile at owe its natural-p o sition. I was'preh ent on hoard a steamex,.near Hahant. .when-more 
than fifty p ers ons exclaimed ,lol the sea s erpent, how very near,[300 feet off } -what a fine 
view?” The monster-proved to te the effect of the mirahe on the dorsal fms of shoals of 
small fishes swimming at the surface of the water.Tims,the FlyxncS Prilchnran of the 
honest he art ecL sailor, may well te the reflected- and often the inverted ima^j© of Tins 
crvm crewr and his own ship 
