o shot in
the barrel. At that time he was utterly unable to account for the
recoil.

The second strange occurrence came to my knowledge through Rabaya.
Freeman told him that as he was towing out to sea that afternoon he
encountered a heavy fog immediately after turning from the bay into the
channel. The tow-boat had to proceed very slowly. When his vessel had
arrived at a point opposite Black Point he heard the sunset gun, and
immediately afterwards strange particles began to fall upon the
barkentine, which was exactly in the vertical plane of the gun's range.
He had sailed many waters and had seen many kinds of showers, but this
was different from all others. Fragments of a sticky substance fell all
over the deck, and clung to the sails and spars where they touched
them. They seemed to be finely shredded flesh, mixed with particles of
shattered bone, with a strip of cloth here and there; and the particles
that looked like flesh were of a blackish red and smelled of powder.
The visitation gave the skipper and his crew a "creepy" sensation, and
awed them somewhat--in short, they were depressed by the strange
circumstance to such an extent that Captain Freeman had to employ stern
measures to keep down a mutiny, so fearful were the men of going to sea
under that terrible omen.

The third circumstance is equally singular. As Freeman was pacing the
deck and talking reassuringly to his crew his foot struck a small,
grimy, metallic object lying on the deck. He picked it up and
discovered that it, too, bore the odor of burned powder. When he had
cleaned it he was amazed to discover that it was the amulet which he
had bought that very day from Rabaya. He could not believe it was the
same until he had made a search and found that it had been stolen from
his pocket.

It needs only to be added that the Flying Devil was never seen
afterwards.

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