Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — The Volcano of Svomboli. [ARTICLE]

The Volcano of Svomboli.

Mr. Sala, in his gossip in the Sunday Times of London, tells how the volcano of Stromboli came to be known to English sailormen as “Old Booty.” The legend is that one Capt Booty, a master mariner trading to the Mediterranean in the seventeenth century, became so notorious for drinking and swearing that he was seized upon by the flend and carried off to the interior of Stromboli, from whicn he has continued ever since to utter profane language by means of tongues of fire and puffs of smoke It is a common thing to hear people rave about the beauty of a sunset, but you may have noticed they never say anything about a sunrise They Dever see them.