Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — Heat Dries Up Four Englishmen. [ARTICLE]

Heat Dries Up Four Englishmen.

I Tide Robert William Qulinliy of Lewiston says that lie lias traveled in all tbe warm countries of the globe and that he has been lit the coldest latitudes. He does not think that we have such very hot weather. If people would make provision for the hot days as they do in India lie thinks we should not notice It so much. “But,” says lie, ‘'the wannest weather that 1 ever experienced was on n small island called John's Biscuit, off Cape Gracias, on Honduras. The Elisabeth Jennings, on which I sailed in 1870, front Portland, stopped there for water and a boat’s crew went ashore for it. It was a little volcanic island and awful dry and hot. We didn’t know whether there would be any water there or not, but we did find a spring with a stream as large as a broom handle pouring out all the time. Aud do you believe mes The water was dried up and soaked up before it bad run four feet in the sand. The place was covered with dried trees and a little distance away was what looked like a hut—a habitation for man. We went iu and fouud the shrunken remains of four men, sailors probably, who had died in one night, to judge from appearances. One was sitting leafing against the wall in a sitting position. There was dry food on the table, drymeat iu a box jtud everything was burning dry. “A letter in the pocket ot one man was dated Liverpool, 1846, and on the table was a bottle with a note irt it, evidently intended to be cast adrift. It said they were four English seamen, marooned by a captain, left to die. The note was dated 3840, and I suppose they had been there dead in that hut for over thirty years, and they must have died of heat one day and dried right up. We left them where we found mem.”—Lewiston Journal.