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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932.

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Pish you hideous things,' Daw- kins sald, pitching a pobble Into their midst. In less than a minute hardly a spider was to be seen.

If we describe that sight when we get back we shall be called liars,' Weston said, glancing at his watch

I've seen insects in my time, butļ never anything like that.'

"The offensive amell Was Atill strong in the air, and as we pro- Igressed it increaserl. Once or twice We it became almost unbearable. had now a long stretch of clear go-t ing before us, so we hastened to Javail ourselves of it by advancing briskly. And still we saw spidera jat every turn, spiders by the

thousand sunning themselves every rock and boulder, great] brown spiders with fat, oval bodies, and with thick, hálry loga bent in grotesque curves. I kicked over a stunted little tree that lay rotting -ugh! Quite two or three hundred spiders must have scuttled away from under it.

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"This is getting beyond a jóke,' Hellier, who seldom spoke, and was generally considered to be rather surly, suddenly said. 'I tell you what it is: these spiders will go for us...

"Like Weston's rats! Dawkins 'said, laughing at him, and we were still chafing Hellier and Weston when Dawkine happened to look, round.

"Why, Harry! he exclaimed. "There was anxiety in his. tone,

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likely to come true. A sickening "We did so, but by the time the "Is there any truth in his spider. feeling of fear had come over him.jswarm had well-nigh resumed its story?" I asked.

"For there, barely fifty yards former size and shape. Could we "Any truth? It's all truth-at away, A reddish-brown mass sweep a lane with our eight barrels least, that's my bellef. Though I gradually assuming the form of a and then rush through It? No, was quite a lad at the time, the ex- crescent was steadily, swiftly glid that was obviously impossible; the pedition started, I can remember It ing over the sand, steadily and width of the wave was too great. woll. Four of them there were, all swiftly overtaking us. And as it And still recrults were pouring in strong and hearty when they act approached we could aed thousands upon every side, and as we fired out. Two months later he came upon thousands of spiders hasten volley after volley into the quickly back." Ing towards it from every, direction approaching swarms in the vain "Did he alone escape?”. and quickly increasing. Its size, hope of turning them, the distant; The swarm when we saw it first ravines rang again and again withHe alone came back came back quite done for and disfigured all must have covered between twelve echoes. and Afteen square feet. Before it "My god, we are done for over with red blotches. Afterwards they turned into pita. Some years had glided over another twenty came despairingly from Hellier, 44, yards of sand the entire mass was for the twentieth time he closed his later another expedition went up and reached the summit, but they about one-third as large again. gun with a snap...

always maintained that rats, not Yet a sort of horrible, fascination! "Our barrels had now become: kept us rooted to the spot where almost too hot to hold, and still the spiders, devoured those poor fel- lows, so they set a stone with an which Iwe now stood watching the swarm hideous, crawling waves,

approach. In order to brace up must have contained trillions of inscription on it at the top of the mountain-you have seen It, no lour courage we told

spiders, were fast approaching: doubt." that the spiders could not be purau with a strange swaying motion, "What do you yourself think they ing us at all; that if we moved and rapidly narrowing our little

were killed by?".

another one

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)•swayed round towards us and seem- first swarm was so near that we you. I have heard him tell the

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1933. 7,000 Jat Feb.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for aside they would pass us by. But circle. In a few minutes they "I don't think anything. As sure

in our hearts we knew that we tried would be upon us, overrunning us, to think a lie. And when we moved dragging us down. Already many as you are standing there they were devoured by swarms of great aside in order to convince ourselves stragglers were running up our the creeping crescent immediately legs and over our bodies. Now the spiders, as Mad Harry, has told jed If anything to advance more could distinctly hear it rushing up story often enough, and he always

quickly."

us, and ah! the smell, how it sill tells the same story. These marke

"¡ara. not»rats' bites." "Suddenly the intense horror of hangs in my nostrils....."

"It's a horrible place, that moun- Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney the situation flushed across my For a moment the stronger stop

mind and atrack terror into our ped. His eyes were widely dia- talu," he said, looking at its rugged peak so clearly outlined in the to tonded. hearts. For what could we do

His limbs trembled.. avert the terrible

frantically in moonlight. Though you can go up fate that clutched the

the table

it now by the winding funicular, threatened us? Savage animals we order to support himself.

which is eight miles long, you don't Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan might have coped with; treacherous "Suddenly I saw several spiders

know what horrors may exist in and Hong Kong to Australia.

human beings, even, we might have run up Weston's fate and fix upon bested; but now we were face to his eyes. With a scream he dash other parts of it. Many a man has face with a peril totally unexpected them away, but as he did so his gone into those mountains, but few Newed, utterly loathsome and unassail-eye began to swell, for the brutes have ever returned.

{able.

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1932.

KAISAR-I-BIND 12,000

2nd Dec. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama

TILAWA

10,000 2nd Dec. Amoy, S'hai, Mojl, Kobo & Osaka

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& Yokohama. Jan. Shanghal, Moli, Kobe oko 16,000 13th

6,800 25th Jan Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 17,000 27th Jan Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama, 15,000 10th

10th Feb

Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama. 500 23rd Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. ,000 24th Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 17,000 10th, Man Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,900 Pard Mar. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

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Steamers on London and Austr

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alteration without notice.

P.&O. Building Cornarght Rd. C. Hou Kong

He

hdd bitten him badly. “Our only chance lies in flight. He stopped again. He was Hellier said bitterly,

quivering all over with excitement. "Flight! And where shall we Suddenly he dashed from his seat of the fly to? The top of the mountain, to the farthermost corner of the I suppose. Look there, Hellfer. room.

"It was Dawkins who spoke, and "Keep them from mel Keep le spoke in tones of scorn. Look them off!" he cried, glaring, wildly ing around us, we now saw what all round the floor. “Look at them. we had not noticed before, Weah! God help me!--help me! were surrounded. Everywhere we help me!

THE END,R

BRITISH AND FOREIGN WARSHIPS

The following warships were port yesterday:

Basin Tamar, pote North Wall-Sandwich. East Wall Heráld.

North Arm-Suffolk and Bruce. West Wall--Kent. Dock Cicala; Oswald-

No. 3 Buoy-Devonshire. No. 7 Buoy Tarantula, US, Aur: Gold Star U.S. Gunboat Ashaville, French river gunboat. Argus. Portuguese cruiser Adamastor.

and

saw spiders spiders approaching He sprang to right and left, then in brown, gliding crescents of towards the door. Perspiration varying sizes. And over a hundred was pouring down his face. Then yards away the largest and darkest suddenly he snatched wildly at Osiris. ⠀ mass of all could clearly be dis-maginary spiders running up his No. 2 Buoy Medway and sub- tinguished, also winding its way hody, running over his head, over marines. along the sand, also approaching, his face, over his eye, into hla also closing us in. And as this mouth. It was a dreadful sight. great crescent surged undulatingly, "Stop him my friend cried unswervingly across the hillocks out, jumping from his seat and and Irregularities in the surface of rushing towards the old man, but. the soll and sand it resembled the as he approached a blindly great wave of a aluggish, turbid directed blow from the stranger's stream leaving a factory sluice fist almost stunned him, and the Fire into them! I exclaimed, innkeeper and two rough-looking slipping a couple of shot cartridges men entered the room. into my The two charges cut "Hold him, boys," the innkeeper

the two a lane in the approaching wave, sald calmly, as but almo Instantly the lane, clog pounced upon the stranger ed up and the undulating masa ad- innkeeper sauntered towards vanced as if nothing had happened. "Poor fellow be said, always

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