Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — The Only Victims. [ARTICLE]

The Only Victims.

West Africa is known to all narigw tors for its few harbors and its heavy surf, which at certain seasons rages like a battle, defying the white man who would approach its shores. The author of “The Jungle Folk of Africa,** Mr. R. H. Milligan, tolls of a successful, and to the observers an amusing effort to reach shore at a point where the surf did not seem to bo Impossible. One day, when the beach seemed much better than usual, the captain and the ship’s surgeon ventured ashore. The captain afterward narrated the adventure of their landing to a small but enthusiastic audience. He said that after waiting outside the surf half an hour the head man suddenly gave the order, and in a moment they were in the breakers, riding on the top of one of them, and speeding toward the shore at the rate of “seventy miles an hour.** The captain was in the bow of the boat, well braced and cushioned. But when the boat struck the beach with the force of a railway collision, the doctor was thrown violently over two thwarts Into the captain’s bosom, whom he clasped about the neck with a steel-like grip. The next moment another breaker picked the boat up and hurled It upon the beach, throwing both captain and doctor to a perfectly safe distance, where they sprawled upon the sand. The doctor, still hugging the captain’s neck, and very much frightened, unclaimed: “O captain, dear captain, is there anybody killed but you and moT*