has,
however, not escaped so well. She lost 19 out of 72 Solorese during the
same season, and the men assert that she has a ghost on board, in the
form of an old sailor, with a white beard and a long knife,. This ghost
was supposed to live in the hold in the day and go up aloft at night ;
and so great was the fear produced, that men would only enter the hold
during the day in company with seven or eight others, all joining
hands. On suddenly waking at night, the men would declare they saw the
ghost touching them with his knife ; and screaming with terror they
would fall ill and die in a few hours. The survivors were all in
Koepang when the " Sree Pas-Sair " returned ; they had refused to put a
foot on board the haunted ship again, even for the few hours' run
across to their own homes, and the "Sree Pas-Sair" therefore gave them
all a passage, eventually arriving in Singapore on the 20th June, and
dropping anchor for the 152nd time since she left in the previous
September.
On
the 1st of August, we again find the vessel fitted out for a two years'
voyage, and leaving in charge of Mr. Haynes, bound for the Sooloo
Archipelago.
On the way up a dangerous shoal, with only 3-1/2 fathoms of water, was found, in the Koti Passage of the Natuna group. This shoal has been
