A PECULIAR WRECK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 237, 4 October 1894, Page 4

A PECULIAR WRECK.

A number of vessels going from or to San Francisco around Cape Horn have recently reported sighting a most peculiar wreck off the Straits of Le Maire, on the Patagonian coasb. A peculiar feature about the wreck was that she sometimes looked like a barque with&her sails furled, and standing oub on an even keel and at other times she appeared to have all her sails sob and they could be seen to belly as the wind caught them. No vessel was reported missing that could correspond with the wreck's rig and position, and people began to think there was something uncanny in the case, more especially as the strange craft ab times appeared to plunge into the mist and dieappear. The coasb here is very rough, few vessels could safely venture near, 'veh ib was positively asserted the barque had painted ports and lofty spars. The captain of tho British ship Cedric the Saxon, or 1 his lasb voyage to San Francisco, also saw the " apparition " and, thinking ib a ship on tho rocks, he went within half a mile of ib. and discovered that ib was only a huge rock of strange appearance.