Show DAST CAST UP UPON ON AN ISLAND ONE OP T HZ SURVIVORS OF A CREW suffering to Is tle th e lost bot no ito taste of food tor for six dy lifs iafe among the maans il A concert gotten VP up on 00 christmas day BRE I 1 is the story 0 of the wreck of the norwegian b a r k celadon Se ladon told by the second mate mr to a represent at I 1 v e of the london news he also gives an account of the adventures 0 of t t the h e survive r a these numbering sixteen were brought to england by th the e or orizaba iza b a from sydney spent the night at the scandinavia sailors home by the west india docks and left for norway the next morning the bark was on her way laden with coal from newcastle N S W to honolulu they were threading their way through these dangerous seas amid the treacherous currents which rage hereabouts sweeping backward and forward at the rate of as much as forty to fifty miles in the twenty few hours when late one night the struck they backed the yards but la III vain the bark was fast and her b awk wk was broken two boats were hurriedly lowered eight men including the captain tain and mr getting into one the chief mate and seven men getting into the other they lay off the sunken reef on which they had struck until daylight hoping that they would be able to get more food and especially the sextant and chronometer but when day dawned the seas were beating fiercely over her and they steered northward hoping to make christmas island or some inhabited land the crew had only two breakers of water a few tins of beef salmon and sardines and a bag or two of biscuits they had also a compass and a chart of the south seas and various odds and ends being close to the equator which as a matter of tact fact they crossed twice before they eventually reached land the sun beat down upon them mercilessly though now and then clouds fild it tor for a while and also kept th them supplied with water the rain water was caught in the sails and thence poured into the breakers the allowance was four spoonfuls at 6 in the morning and tour four spoonfuls at 6 at night the men kept watch as though they had been in their own ship four on and four off one steered one I 1 saw to the sail gall the other balled perhaps that Is until they could not walk from one end of the boat to the other but though fearfully weak this was not yet the captain was the first to go about dinner time how bow prim these every day words sound in dealing with such a story the captain said to mr I 1 dont think I 1 shall last long oh yes captain you hlll give me a little water said the captain so seeing that he be was nearly dead called to the steward and whispered let him have just a spoonful the captain swallowed it and lay down on the thwarts when looked down again he was dead this was about 5 in the afternoon the captain had brought a bag with him and clothes in it charts and one or two trifles after the wreck they took off his watch which contained photographs of his wife and ad children emptied a bag and reverently placed the captain in it they spoke as much as they could remember of the service for the dead sang rang some simple dimple hymn which is sung in norwegian houses when one Is dead lifted his remains on to the gunwale and let him fall gently into the ocean oce he bank aana at once at last they took their last meal and for six days never tasted food on the thirtieth morning land was sighted and they came up to one of the innumerable coral islands which stud the southern seas A tearful fearful surf was lashing it but they ran the boat ashore she was shivered to little bits two natives of the fijian group came running down one brandishing a tomahawk and a long knife but he was able to speak a little english th and on mr saying they were shipwrecked I 1 men the two natives and their 1 families proved good friends to the miserable men the carpenter was i delirious and could not walk so they wheeled him up to the huts in a wheelbarrow the rest being too weak to walk alone took one another arms and thus managed to follow their comrades the fillans gave them three bottles of beer and the remains of some hick en they also killed a pig cooki cooking ng it in the ground in native fas fashion hisil but not one ot of the men was hungry however in a few days they slowly scowl y began to recover the use of thear all but poor chips the carpenter who died he was a m n of 60 and now began abir life orr on this tiny island which was practically pi a desert delft but tor for a fear bananas bina nas I 1 and palms they built themselves a hut allt ut roads road 31 planted little allf a tle prepared top opra Mand ana dlithe bist best th they ey d during six ate months the bortles came to regg wAd mere je aught hatm aten vr I 1 w block 1 ji afi digoin ji 2 thim the middle addle oThe 1 ad d they the caught tibe abl lz IJA alki C if w 1 e DW ecio en abia sno 13 Y iiii i 7 1 I haw 40 afie iri aa i f oali to I 1 I 1 jm natt ad I 1 0 U X I 1 1 zt Z I 1 1 ey ai a I 1 us hii r gui orm lid byll lri U ere c 7 T va A T into Rob robinson inmon crts arts avi having ng no 1 they got fire are by rubbing two sticks tog together ether and on christmas day they even eren managed to get up a I 1 little concert beneath the lovely tropic moon having in tact fact found a broken find and patched it up in honor of the day dar on the of july 1897 looking out over aver the ocean one morning a sail was sighted which grew bigger and bigger greatly excited 01 ELzen jumped into a little boat belonging to the natives and put off to her she was a little government cruiser her captain and were soon at close I 1 quarters qu artera and after some debate the visitor having but a scant provision 0 on n board agreed to take the crew to sural on the condition that they brought some of their turtle aboard which they did and arrived safely in fiji sailing sai lingIn in another norwegian bark for sydney where they went aboard the orizaba and sailed tor for england |