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Show BRAVED 19 MILES OF SHIM BOAT Captain Nels P. Benson Arrives Ar-rives at San Francisco After Harrowing Experience. SAN FBANCJ.SCO, Dec. 6. An Odysseus of the Pacific leaned over the rail of tho liner !Moana as sho warped into her berth today and tears ran down his storm-baked face as he gazed again on that civilization for which he braved 3000 miles of open sea in a ship's boat with two companions. "It was worth it," he eaid. The man of toda who might havo stopped from tho pages of Homer's epic is Captain Nels P. Benson, master of the American schooner El Dorado, which ho left watorlogged 2000 miles off the coast of Chile on Friday, Juno 13 last. Ho and his fourteen shipnmtoi had all been given up for lost long ago. Bound for AntofagasUi. Ctiile, with lumber, tho El Dorado cleared from Astoria, Ore., on April 1. Sho ran into heavy weather, her seams opcucd and after wearing themselves out at the Cumps, tho crew were forced to leave or a derelict. All fourteen in ono open boat, thoy mado En3ter island, the eastennost of tho Polynesian group, in nine days, nnd cruised about for two days before they could find a landing place. Once ashore, immediate creature comforts com-forts were moro alluring to eleven of them than tho call of homo. They were content to remain with their "Malay wives on nn island whoro other white men seldom halt nnd ncvor remain. But to Captain Benson and two companions, civilization was worth tho risk of 3000 miles moro in an open boat. Thov" ailed for Papeete, in tho French Friendly islands, mndo their port and were brought to San Francisco on the Moana today. Th" captain brought bak with him on the hnor'a deck the lifeboat that had made h's return pos-i pos-i lil V |