The illustrated papers of that most Christian land which is overcome with the barbarity of sinking old hulks in a channel through which privateers were wont to escape our blockade furnished effective engravings "by our own artist" of the scene.

About twenty years ago a brig was wrecked near by, and three or four fishermen were put to watch the deserted hulk through the darkness.

And three separate times we saw the hulks of rotting vessels, some of them having the appearance of a previous age, so ancient did they seem.

"We'll moor the hulk alongside and rig the diving pumps.

A great rope rose out of the water as the men at the winch hauled up the clumsy hulk.

" They left the old hulk of a house in the sole care of the African mute, and went away to the Guinea coast together.

"We ought to push on, but while we might tow the hulk under, we can't tow her down channel.

Now whilst I had been writing, sitting in the mouth of the tent, I had observed, from time to time, how that the bo'sun was busied with the men in passing the end of the big rope round a mighty boulder, which lay about ten fathoms in from the edge of the cliff which overlooked the hulk.

They had ridden out a winter's gale in the Bay of Biscay and for a night had lost the hulk and the men on board.

"I had too much trouble in navigating my old hulk on dry land, to log the name and rate of every craft I fell in with," returned the other, with infinite composure; "and yet, now you speak of such a thing, I do remember to have come within hail of a poor fellow, just about the beginning of the morning-watch somewhere hereaway, up in the bushes between this town and the bit of a ferry that carries one on to the main.

When the negroes Montgomery sent arrived all the cargo worth salving was re-stowed, and he bought the hulk for a floating store.

For being in the height of my search, what should come into my hand, but a bag, which was used to hold corn (as I supposed) for the fowls; so immediately resolving to put gunpowder in it, I shook all the hulks and dirt upon one side of the rock, little expecting what the consequences would be.

We'll shift the hulk to leeward of the wreck and she ought to ride out a south-east breeze.

Between three and four in the morning the clouds broke over the Pontiac, and the moon, riding high, picked out in black and silver the long hulk that lay cradled between the iron shells and warehouses and the wooden frames and tenements on either side.

I guess we support that big hulk.

" "Ay, ay, young man, you wish to surprise the old hulk to surrender; gaily rigged and manned as you are, you think, by a show of homage to me, to surprise me into paying it to you," said the old man, rousing himself from his abstraction, and laughing as he spoke.

Then Moran's lightning right shot out again, smartly, and seemed just to tap the great hulk on the side of the chin.

A curse, then, "Why don't you throw the big hulk over?"

Then, seeing me amazed, they told me how that anything which moved the weed seemed to draw them from all parts; but that they seldom touched the hulk unless there was something visible to them which had movement.

Then, as I turned to make some remark, being filled with many feelings, there came a hail, from far above in the air, as it might be, and, looking up, I discovered the man upon the hill to be standing along the edge, and waving to us, and now I perceived how that the hill towered a very great way above us, seeming, as it were, to overhang the hulk though we were yet some seventy fathoms distant from the sheer sweep of its nearer precipice.

Vesuvius got under way, and after circling round the doomed hulk discharged a Whitehead against the netting from her under-water bow torpedo tube at an approximate range of 50 yards.

I married this young woman in a false name; I robbed her of her money, and I deserve the hulks, if anybody ever did.

A little later, on a green slope, he discerned a moving hulk that he knew was a bear.

The water in the ship increased rapidly, and extinguished the fires under the boilers; the wind, blowing a high gale, swung into the northwest, thus driving the now helpless hulk out to sea.

A diver quickly explored the hulk, opened the hatches of the freight-boat, which was cigar-shaped like the Argonaut and supplied with wheels so it could be drawn over the bottom, and placed the suction-tube in position.