The literary digest . know of thepeculiar spell that was supposed to hangover the Ophir. From the hour she wastaken over from the Dutch service, she wasknown as the hoodoo ship. Calamity ap-peared ever in wait for her. On the nightof October 21, when she left New York onwhat was to prove her final voyage,bearing troops and a cargo of andgasoline for the American a^dation servicein Italy, there were unrest and vagueapprehension. Twenty-four hours out of New .Yorkshe encountered a U-hoat. After a short,desperate encounter, the Ophir managedto get away. But the feeling of uneasinesswas in

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The literary digest . know of thepeculiar spell that was supposed to hangover the Ophir. From the hour she wastaken over from the Dutch service, she wasknown as the hoodoo ship. Calamity ap-peared ever in wait for her. On the nightof October 21, when she left New York onwhat was to prove her final voyage,bearing troops and a cargo of andgasoline for the American a^dation servicein Italy, there were unrest and vagueapprehension. Twenty-four hours out of New .Yorkshe encountered a U-hoat. After a short,desperate encounter, the Ophir managedto get away. But the feeling of uneasinesswas in no wise allayed. The next afternoona young ensign died of Spanish influenza. After the troops had been landed allright the ship set out on the voyage toItaly. But when we were two days off thecoast of Africa, writes Yoeman Bradley,we hit a storm. It was a pretty badstorm. The sea was running high and theboat was under almost all the time. They were forced to put back to Gib- The Literary Digest for January 18, 1919 43. Out of the Ashe;

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