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Spectral Vessel Take Out To Te a Mar velous Phenomecos. The American clipper ship Luzon, from the Hawaiian ‘glands with a full cargo of, dugar, had jo strange ex perience after rounding the born. When off the barren Staten land, in good weather, and with scarcely any sea on, the lookout reported a sail. It was about an hour before sunset. Al though the Luzon was almost the calm en, the vessel slehted was under close, reefed toprails. This made the Luzon's mate think a storm was bearing down on him, and he speedily shortened sail. Rapiidly,the stranger came near er, and It could be seen that she was partially diamasted forward. In the meantime, however, the expected squall to not make it an advent. The strange ship passed D close that it seemed as thouge 8 biacult might be thrown on board. Still her crew paid not the alightest attention to the Luzon. On the latter consternation prevailed. The appearance of the storm-torsed vessel was so uncanny that the Luzon's men were beside themselves with terror. Not until it dawned upon Capt. Park that the other ship .Was a part of the Phenomenor-known so the fata mor gana, where a vessel is reflected a great distance, could he restore any thing like order among the men. The most remarkable feature of the ine dent developed three weeks later. When the Luzon was nearing the equator she passed the Russian ship bowleafor, bound south, and her men had no difficulty in identifying her with the mirage they had willnessed. She had the same dissinctive lungs;and, aura enough, her foremast had been broken off close to the foretop, a jury mast taking the place of the missing spar. She had been reflected at least 1,000 miles, and the atorm which the Yukon's men had observed had prob ably wrought the damage.—Philadel phia North American,
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Cuba Daylight
Cuba, Kansas, US
Fri, Dec 28, 1900
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