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and endeavored to drag himself up its side. He says he struggled in this endeavor for over half an hour only to fall back into the sea time after time. His clothing shows the mighty struggle of the anchient mariner for in his climbing he had worn his trousers through so that both knee caps protruded. He had fastened the painter around his body determined that if he should die he would be attached to his home and thus found. Distress Signals.


He succeeded in tearing off a strip of his blue shirt and with his vest as an auxiliary begn waving them aloft when he got a chance to rise on the crest of a wave.


a schooner.


Far of coming up the bay he discovered Passed the Hat.


He shouted but his voice was carried in the opposite direction by the gale. Again the EAST LYNNE, catching a squall, started off like a greyhound for Ironbound dragging her helpless master astern. The rope tied about his waist almost squeezed the life out of him and he rolled along in the wake of the ship like a porpoise. Once he passed something soft. It was his sou-wester skimming merrily out to sea towards the schooner in the offi ng. ROSELLE’S Story.


The crew of the ROSELLE tells the second chapter of the rescue. The ROSELLE, bound from Islesford to Bar Harbor, espied a strange acting craft off Bald Porcupine sailing as if her crew was practicing to defend the America’s Cup. With their glass no living


thing could be seem aboard, but a strange looking object was described attached to the painter. They thought it was some object being towed. Nearby they saw a hat afl oat. It was being blown over the waves towards them. The crew of the ROSELLE put out in a dory and picked up a sou’wester and then rowed for the schooner which bore doen upon them suddenly.


As she passed they espied Capt. Bendix almost lifeless, being dragged through the sea astern of the craft. They caught the painter, dragged the half-conscious man aboard and succeeded in managing the EAST LYNNE and pointing her for Bar Harbor which they reached safely at 4 o’clock.


Capt. Bendix lay all night aboard his craft recovering from the effects of his deeo sea diving and Wednesday morning at sunrise found the EAST LYNNE well out to sea bound for Prospect Harbor. Not Yet Ready.


This if the fi fth narrow escape from death in the waves of Capt. Bendix. Some eight years ago the EAST LYNNE appeared here with Capt. Wm. Shallow, of East Boston, in command. He had lived for many years aboard of her alone. He was a hermit of the sea and picked up enough out of its store to keep body and soul together. His harbor was at Bar Island where the EAST LYNNE anchored in wintry gales. Finally Capt. Shalley, sickened and was sent on to the sailors’ home by that generous philanthropist, Milton Rodick, of Bar Harbor, who is known by every sailor


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who ever left Gloucester for the banks. The EAST LYNNE fell into Milton Rodicks hands and he sold it to Capt. Bendix. He took up the threads where Capt. Shallow dropped them and the EAST LYNNE has since been a castle and a home to him. Hermit of the Sea.


A few years ago Capt. Bendix was found one wintry morning lying half frozen on the rocky shores of Gouldsboro. He had fallen from the EAST LYNNE’s mainmast and drifted ashore. Again he was rescued out at sea near Egg Rock light being in the water several hours.


His greatest experience on the EAST


LYNNE, except his latest escape from death, was the discovery of the dead body of an old sea faring friend some seven years ago off Schoodic Point.


The Automobile Dory. Capt. Bendix was fi shing one day at


sunrise off Schoodic when he saw a strange sight. A dory had passed him like a streak yet there was not a soul in her. The oars were at the bottom of the boat and a tangled skein of fi sh lines could be distinctly seen. Away the dory sped and Capt. Bendix rubbed his eyes and made after it. The dory stopped twirled about and came towards him. As it collided with hime he grasped his own painter and jumped in to take a ride in this strange oceanic automobile. He had not ridden a boat’s length before it stopped. Then he noted that a cod line being tant over the edge and ran direct into the deep. It was all plain; a fi sherman


had set his line and forgotten it and a fi sh had bitten on the hook.


The Schoodic Mystery.


He began to draw in on the cod line but tug as he would he could not draw in the fi sh. A brother fi sherman came along and the two began to draw up the line.


They toiled with all their might at what deemed must be the monster cod of the deep. At last it came to the surface, an immense halibut, but there was another object connected with it by another line. They pulled on the second line and to their astonishment drew to the surface the body of a dead man, the owner of the dory and their friend, Sam Maxwell.


It was evident that Maxwell, who was a noted Schoodic fi sherman, has drawn the halibut to his dory and had a sharp struggle to land it and in the night became tangled up with his fi shing tackle, resulting in the halibut’s escape and in it dragging Maxwell down into his grave.


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