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STRAND IMAGAZINT.

THE STERN BUITDING,

water was again admitted, aml the interior thoroughly flushed out. Then the dead bodies Tnd the putrid cargo were removed —a dangcrous as well as an unutta ubly u,pulsl\c, task. Thirty-three bodies m all were found below, presenting many sights too hidcous for duumuon. These were buried in the middle of the Straits.

The last picce of the superstructure taken down was that about the stern, the highest and strongest built of the whole ercetion A phc)toomph representing this portion just before removal gives a good idea of the vencral construction “of this calsson — for that is what it pl&(,tlullly was. The

were halt-checked oak

timbers and were seven inches thick—as against the six inches employed on the rest

upriw‘ht pu mks,

the construction. They were joined by horizontal angle-iron framings shaped to the vessel's stern. The toot of the planking was stepped into a gutter way of double angle-irons, shaped to the taffraill. From the height of this planking the eye may

judge the depth below the surface to which

the deck sank. So was raised the Clopea vered probably in the

a wreck reco- shortest time and

with the lTeast expenre onre occord for a vessel of her size

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INSHORE.