Show food supplies stored for foi castaway sailors to be shipwrecked on some lonely island or rock where there Is no food is it a fate which has often befallen bailors Bai lors it Is those spots blots of land which are at a great distance from the regular ocean highways where the outlook for castaways casta ways Is so sperate desperate IL yet it Is just these very islands on to which a disabled ship may drift typical of these islands are those called amsterdam st paul and the Cro crozets ta lying to the south of the indian ocean in the old days sure starvation was the fate of any man stran stranded deI on st anul today lio lie will find on the rocky beach a notice board bearing the inscription in french food and clothing for castaway casta ways 4 11 following the direction indicated by a bloden hand tic he cornea comes across a rough stone atone hut in n which there Is a store of preserved beof beef biscuits woolen shirts blankets and matches all those these goods are contained in strong barrels which can be easily opened As long ago as a french ves acs gel eel left beer biscuits and sardines on ono one of the crozet islands nearly tw twenty enty years after the food was waa oaten eaten by the shipwrecked crew or of a norwegian whaling expedition |