Show shipwrecked SAILOR SIXTEEN DAYS ON FOURTEEN BISCUITS two castaways Casta ways drew 0 on each other for blood its as rood food think somebody bod y has lied 1 marshfield or march 15 dardel daniel dark clark and thomas moore supposed to bg be the only survivors of 0 a crew of chitty one ona tram the british ship yeoman arrived here last night on the schooner leeds the yeo roan wool went down on the morning of 0 february in laiti tudo 31 34 north norih longitude 45 S west site sho was waa bound from antwerp to redondo clark cark related the details ot of the toof loss 0 the chip and piedt and bis big escape as follows it was my watch on mi deck the weather was perfectly calm but I 1 feared a heavy squall and began to dh otten sail I 1 had ordered sail taken in but had the h sailors started to execute toy my command cheni a suddon sudden squall struck us ard and the water waler became very rough A emvy swell like a tidal wave struck us capsizing the ship I 1 was forward all uie the time lime and AS the sea swept the deck I 1 was carried with it overboard A lull followed and the ship I 1 got col anthe on tho ship again to lind rio no one on deck the cook coo it was lying in the galley with his head split open and hardly alive I 1 iva went down 0 n into n the cabin and d found captain ferguson and the second mate wr vr admi drowned I 1 went aloft to try and wead some canvass can vasa but tile the ship was continually sinking I 1 then decided to al abandon randon her and cut loosle loose a lifeboat life boat from the davits got the ccok into it I 1 and suat just sot got clear of the ship far enough to keep from being swamped by the suction as eho went down we were fourteen days daya in the boat before the schooner hooner BO leeds leed a h us euband und picked us its lip dp during which time wo we suffered BUll ered more inora th thun an language can express ex presa we a h had ul to tare fare all the time on sixteen sea biscuits without a drop of fresh waiter we ate two bige biscuits arts apiece each day un unell 01 dley were exhausted and would drink salt water onil and throw wall hup alcaen this made our tongues swell up and our mouths and throats sel get as raw as a beebe beefsteak eak when he biscuits were exhausted we became too taint faint to pull an oar or guide the boot boat so go we drifted to and tro fro until picked up wo could wt speak our names td and our eyes were vere swollen shut we were oo eo hungry that we ate the uppers of ou our s also sucked tho blood out of f rach each other oiher here mr clark exhibited hla his if ipg s which sibol ved grait git g it red blotches blotcher blot ches certifying the truthfulness ot of oils story continuing he said 1 I havo have hav o been around tho the ilaria nine times but this was the roughest hegl trip I 1 ever experienced we lost four men overboard in a I 1 rale ale oft off 4 the be horn and paul tell fell from the top toi sall yard and was waa killed wo we were fourteen days dava in makeni seven miles and drifted to the southward it win nothing but bad luck rom bearl to finish had not ithe th leeds heen blown bilowit seo miles out of her course it would have been all day with us |