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Show PERILS OF THE SE.4. A Terrihle Story ol Starvation and :ieulh A -llutiny The ' Oil Tleml u the "City oi" New York, 12. The brig Centaur i arrived froui Grey town yesterday. On the 2d of October buq picked up a Spanish negro in a boat belonging to the bark Toronto, of Glasgow, wrecked near Navasse, but when and under whuf. circumstances could not be learned from tho negro. The crew abandoned the bark in tho same boat and all perished except the negro. Ho was insensible when found. A reporter has had a talk with tho rescued seaman, from which it appears that soon after leaving Navasso, a furious storm arose and at 11 o'clock at night the foremast broke ofT close to tho deck. They cut away the mast and an hour after tho mainmast gave way, leaving only the niien maet. Tho tempest was very violent. .. The captaiu was below sloepiug and tho first mate lying on deck disabled by a nail in the foot. Land was then discovered and the captain called, under whose orders all hands took lo the long boat, which was almost filled with water, and seven of ll:o men were washed away. Some ol them clung to the oars, but were soon wastieci away, and the violence of .the waves speedily carried the boats away from the vessel. There were now seven men in tho boat with no provisions. pro-visions. , For days thy drifted without with-out food, but secured a little water from tho rains. From the negro Maxima's account it buviiis clr::ir that the men lost their reason. He describes de-scribes them as walking about looking look-ing at tbe sea and sky. Some leaped into the sea, some lay on their backs with their parched mouths open, 2nd so died, and others lay against the boat aido and drooped until they died, apcaking not a word to their comrades. com-rades. One by ono thoy all wont, throwing themselves or being thrown into the sea. At length he alone was left. He ate sea -weed to sustain life. He caught a sea bird occasionally and Bomctimwa a fish. When found he was drifting alone, helplessly reclin-1 ing against the side, . his bead droop1-1 ing over bid bosom. He could not move. The boat of the Toronto on board tho Centaur shows where it has been scraped by tho men for the pur l pose of eating the dirt that clung to tho sides. A special Jroui London says: A telegram from Rocbolle dated Nov. 11th stale that a bottle containing tho followinc message was picked up o Nov. 8lh off the coast of Nieuewe. "The crew of the British ship Lenme, Captain Hatfield, from Antwerp for pew York, mutinied on lue oisi ui October and killed the master, mate I and boatswain." A telegram from liwihelle, Nov. 10th, elates that a government slcamer discovered the British shio Jennie ofl Yarmouth with a boy and live men ou board, four of whom were supposed to be accomplices accompli-ces in tho mutiny; six of the crew were Greeks and escaped in a boat on tho previous evening. , - The steamer II 'ato, burned in Galveston Gal-veston harbor, had on board 300 cases of petroleum. The vessel had no right to cany this oil, being without the necessary certificate, and her owner? will bo prosecuted. |