A TERRIBLE DEATH.

West Coast Times, Issue 7332, 28 February 1889, Page 4

A TERRIBLE DEATH.

A sailor serving on board Her Majesty's troopship Tyne me} very recently with a horrible death in the harbor of Sierra Leone. The poor fellow was engaged in cleaning the side of the ship, with his naked feet dangling in the water, and solacing himself by singing snatches of a fong, when he vanished without any warning from the view of his astonished comrades. They were far from suspecting the cause of his disappearance, and efforts made to recover the body by d:ag* ging were of no avail. The harbor of Sierra Leone, like that of Sydney, ia infested with sharks of a very voracious species, and two days after the loss of the paUor a monster was captured. In drowning the shark before hauling it on board, it vomited from its maw the right arm oj the nufortunate man who disappeared* Tbe limb was frightfully torn, ' and it ia probable that after being dragged down into the eea, the ravenous creatures had waged a fierce figbt over the poor fellows remains. Every kind of horror and sickening torture is added to these de» tails of the light-hearted sailor's death. His snatch of song at tbe very moment of his disappearance proved his indifference to a danger common to all tropical stas ; aud the carelessness by which it was brought about is typical ot the daredevil courage of the British tar For several days after tbe man's death the harbor Bwarmed with sharks, and sailors working on the ships were forced to use the greatest precautions. ,