A WHALE STORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3934, 9 October 1891, Page 3

A WHALE STORY.

Th» Satchel? ShopA yam is going the rounds of the New Zealand press that a sailor named Bartley w« for three days in the stomach of a whale and, at the BXPirationof that time, was taken tmtali«e. But the ordinary newstreat, the story as incredible. A correspondent of the Dcnedin Star, however, goes one better and furnishes us with the following:-About the year 1845 the brig Hardscrabble Sailed from Xiaeston, Jamaica, bound for a port in British North America, the only oatsengers being an old Creole lady £nd myself. One night, when off the coast of Florida, the ship «tiock heavily, and began to fill ao rapidly that we had barely time to scramble into the jolly boat before she -went down. It was intensely idark so we just got the oars ont to keep the i)oat steady until morning wonldshow as our whereabouts. Just before <aawn one of the men exclaimed that oar had! touched bottom, and immediately we appeared to glide into a dark -cavern. The cook bavin* Borne snatches struck a light and cried out: * Why, Tm Mowed if we're not in a butcher's shop; there's a big plock hanging from the roof. I'm bound for a feed, even if it is raw.' He took his knife »nd cutoff a huge pie«e, but no sooner had he done io than we received a sudden .shock tod the boat was hove out into

bright daylight. We then found we had rowed' right down the throat of an immense whale. The old lady was Bitti»g in the stern sheets, and the impetus given to the boat when throw out caused her to topple over, and she was left behind.