Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . T back tothe steamer we pass the gaunt and mournful spectre of theAdler, one of the unfortunate German men-of-war, which, inthe awful gale of March 15, 1889, was lifted bodily from thewater and with great fury cast upon the top of the reef and. ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE ADLER. turned over on her side. There she still lies, her poor ribsexposed and bare, with the daylight shining through themeverywhere, an awful spectacle of the fury of a tropicalstorm in this quiet bay. Near by, but under the waves
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . T back tothe steamer we pass the gaunt and mournful spectre of theAdler, one of the unfortunate German men-of-war, which, inthe awful gale of March 15, 1889, was lifted bodily from thewater and with great fury cast upon the top of the reef and. ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE ADLER. turned over on her side. There she still lies, her poor ribsexposed and bare, with the daylight shining through themeverywhere, an awful spectacle of the fury of a tropicalstorm in this quiet bay. Near by, but under the waves, liesher companion gunboat, the Eher, and the two United Statessteamers, Vandalia and Trenton, which were wrecked andutterly destroyed in the same fearful gale in which thereperished four American officers and forty-seven men, andnine German officers and eighty-seven men. Nine hundredmen were saved from the wrecked shipping in the harbor,who were provided for with the utmost generosity and G4 BOUNDLESS SKIES AND ENDLESS SEAS. humanity by the native Samoans and the foreign the Mariposa steams out of the quiet coral reef with thefrail native boats dancing all about her, it is hard to realizethat this peaceful bay was ever the scene of such devastatingfury. Now we may congratulate ourselves that we are morethan half way to
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