Word: cobequid
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...last week Lightkeeper William Faulkner heard a crash far out in Cobequid Bay, Nova Scotia. Then came a noise like an explosion and cries for help. Faulkner ran out to the beach, roused neighboring fishermen. In the darkness they could see nothing; but again came the anguished shouts from the bay. The tide was out. For two miles from the beach stretched a sea of soft red mud on which no man could walk. For two hours the shouts could be heard while the watchers waited for the tide to rise. Just as a boat was floated, the shouts died...
...third day Pilot Louis Leigh of Maritime Airways Co. of Sydney flew his seaplane low over the muddy waters of Cobequid Bay, sighted the wreckage of the mail plane floating bottom-side-up. On the fifth day he spotted the body of Pilot Simon, red with Cobequid mud. One hand clutched a monocle. There was a fresh cut on the head. Physicians declared that Pilot Simon had died of exposure only a few hours before his body was found...
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