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Show Food Supplies Stored for Castaway Sall0, To be shipwrecked on some loin,' Island or rock, where there i8 ' food, is a fate which has often fallen sailors. It Is those spots of land which ( at a great distance from the regu', ocean highways where the outlri for castaways Is so desperate. 7 it Is Just these very islands on which a disabled ship may drift, : Typical of these islands are uncalled un-called Amsterdam, St. Paul and ft Crozets, tying to the south of tliejjt dlan ocean. In the old clays sure stj, vatlon was the fate of any stranded on St. Paul. ' Today he will find on the roct, beach a notice board bearing the hi scription In . French, "Food and clot Ing for castaways." Following tliej" rection Indicated by a wooden har he comes 'across a rough stone in,,' In which there is a store of preserve ; beef, biscuits, woolen shirts, blau : ets and matches. All these goods at, contained in strong barrels, whtj can be easily opened. As long ago as 1SS7 a French ve, sel left beer, biscuits and sardines 0 : one of the Crozet islands. ', Nearly twenty years after, thefts was eaten by the shipwrecked crei ; of a Norwegian whaling expedite |