Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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17 It was a tough battle, and it looked as if the robbers would win, until their leader, who was cheering them on, was shot. A mourning shout went up from them for their leader. They now had lost all their fighting skill. Some retreated and the rest were killed. Kaloe was victorious! They soon went back to their peaceful living again. J. BERRIDGE, Form 4L. An Adventure at Sea One day my brother and I went out in a small boat to do some fishing. We packed the boat with food and water and started on our fishing trip. When we were about a mile from the shore we stopped the motor, threw over the anchor and started to fish. We caught many fish and we stayed so long that it was getting dark when we started home. When we were about half a hile from shore, the motor in our boat suddenly stopped. It was a dark night and it looked as if we were going to have a storm. The waves became bigger and bigger, until our little boat was rocking so much that we could hardly against something. Then the boat turned over, throwing us out on the shore of an island. We crawled under a tree which we saw nearby and soon we went to sleep. The next morning we awoke early and decided to explore the island. My brother saw some berries, so we ate them for breakfast. We could see that the island was about a quarter of a mile wide, and half a mile long. There were many trees growing and we saw some rabbits. I stumbled over a stone and, when I looked at it, I saw that it was a gold nugget. After searching for a few minutes, we found a dozen of them, each weighing roughly a pound. In the middle of the island we found an old cabin. It was made of logs and had a piece of canvas over the top for a roof. There was no furniture in the cabin and all we found in it was an old axe. We returned to the spot where we had been thrown out of our boat and saw a man going past the island in a motor boat. We asked him if we could go back with him and he said that he could take us. ..When we arrived home we discovered that the nuggets, which we had found, were pure gold. D. DE SILVA, Form 4L.

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16 Little did these people know that many miles away there was a band of robbers who were thinking of Kaloe at that moment. The band ' s chief, named Re-Nao, heard of the wealth of Kaloe and decided to rob the city of its gold. He decided to surround the city and starve the people inside who would have no water. He would then rob the city of its treasures. Two weeks later, at sunset, the sixty-eight robbers and Re-Nao arrived silently at Kaloe, revising their plans for the capture of Kaloe. After this they quickly and quietly sur- rounded the wall, without the inhabitants ' knowing. Re-Nao shouted out to the people, Men and women of Kaloe. I, the great Re-Nao, am here to destroy your city. Oh you weak ones, you have no chance against my mighty powers. From now on you will never leave your city, thus you shall starve to death! After this R-Nao and his crew laughed until their sides were ready to burst. The people of Kaloe were now very frightened and could not think of any means of escape. They decided to await death bravely. At the end of two dry days three or four of the children were dead and the adults were weakening. Everyone seemed doomed to die. That night one of the men thought of a possible way of escape. His suggestion was to dig a tunnel from their city to a place nearby the well. Although the men were weak they decided to try it. The soil, being quite soft, helped them considerably. It was not very long, to their surprise, before one man said that they had reached the well. They immediately took water into the city for the thirsty people who drank it joy- fully. They had now to think of a way to get rid of the enemy. One man suggested that they get the rifles which they used for hunting. After they had fetched them, they found the enemy ' s ammunition box and twenty of their guns. They then stationed themselves at different places and got ready what little ammunition they had. At a signal from their leader they fired. They shot down many at first who were taken by surprise. The robbers soon gained their senses and began shooting. The fighting was now on:

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18 Adventures of a Half Crown This is the story of a gold half crown minted in the year 1558. This half crown was such a beautiful piece that one of the men who worked at the Mint kept it for himself, hiding it in the family chest under the bed. Every night he looked to see if the coin were there. One night before he went to bed, he opened the chest expecting to see the coin, but it had disappeared. The cottage was searched high and low but without success. The workman was very sad at his loss, but little did he know that dry rot had pierced the chest as well as the overhanging gable of the house, and the coin had fallen onto the street below. Early in the morning a heavy rainstorm washed the coin into the gutter, where it remained for three hundred years, covered with dirt and rubbish. Then one day a numismatic plumber, cleaning the gutter and working on the new drainage system, found the coin. Since the coin was rare, but already in his own collection, he decided to sell it to a fellow collector. As he was crossing the Monkeyville Bridge, the coin slipped from his hands and fell into a barge on the river be- low. The bargee, knowing nothing about old coins, took it to a hobby shop where, to his amazement, the clerk, after flipping through the catalogue, looked up and remarked: 1558 — Gold half-a-crown — minted in Monkeyville — twelve pounds. The bargee gasped and, after thanking the clerk, hurried out of the shop. For those who would like to know, the coin was put in the Monkeyville Museum, where it can be seen to this day. T. S. GARE, Form Upper III. Physical Education Society Owing to the general lack of leadership in the upper school, the Society was temporarily disbanded throughout the Easter Term. It became quite obvious that, since nearly all the work of organisation was being thrown back on the games- master, many of the original activities would have to be abandoned. In consequence, no Rugby was played — though some boys are keen enough to practice and play with the B.A.A. — and only one hockey game was seen, when the school took on Prospect, who beat us 3-0.