Show A POOLE SEA VOYAGB An Account or the Loss of the Julia Ann in 1855 MrseulAns I Preperticol ot the Liveit 01 hot 00 R Lonely hnot III 1 tho bo ra > son March 2S ISM To the Miller Hating seen It stated many times In print that there has never been I a ship lout emigrating Latterday Saints to Zion Jr I > honor of the Illustrious dead I A III mention one Intone of n ohlp I wreck that happened In the year UC5 with fortyone saints on board I was the line clipper bark Julia Ann that sailed from Australia I get this account from the mouth and journal 01 Fldor James Veritable who mas president of the company We left Port JACkson and Sidney New South Wales Sect lot G on the bark I Julia Ann bound for Ran Pedro Cal We had a pleasant Voyage for the first thirty days but I about this time the Saints quarreled on board I and were ty contention that I was afraid that something would happen to the shIp On the Srd of October the nigh yea wry dark and the wind was blowIng blow-Ing almost u gal and we were running About till knot an hour We iwrc lit I the midst of many Islands nt I reefs About 4 oclock In the morning the man on lh lookout cried out L Land ohII and we Con d lien tile reek erst dashing against the rock Our noble captain IInd gllv orJn 10 take In rails and tackutifill bHrit wa too lite All were clcl on deck and t he next moment n round o heard like thunder and the Iow OC our III lke thundr If0u fated hip rooo outC water about rdome lour feet nn a crag of the crtl rf run Into our ship and broke n hole a large aw a barrel and ne cull hnr Ih water 911511111Cln Ore ere glnn to cu I Iown Ih hOI e Thpy were lowered and I man found that the water man only About 1m deep on tile rock and 0 all lie In 1 the I water and nenrlY nil In their nigh c loll Slut It I wn high tide And the walr I went Ion And Jn the rok bore hy unI me next morning Whn h P hip truck oil made 0 rush for the deck Therc w I all read c for hp Sister Murpho uu cry sick and her tile child renand Sister Until were heard to I 14yd 1 1 II l Bty lh ou and hlp you Ito w hv I-to die I m 0 11111 go together This 0 n the last l ever board Ihe The frT ipl t cthl h 1 sill 1 toy in this P01111111 I t tell mintI and the sa ors m1 I D few fw thing front the deck After uIll h the ship slipped art the roc k Rod sank nil only Ih topa of the roastit mere I I eight Now daylight came i and DI the land that could be seen yea a bety I b 1 or Islet uout eight Miles AwAy and captain lane Had his 10 ttu ano sailors took the boats a nil Pulled Co the Inlet When Ih ev nrrln tit the land they found II to be a low I bar nhut live miles In circumference And about Iwch feet In the highest place a took t hw days to get 1 on the Islet and now the worthad 1 not como YI We mere 1 hee and rnistly naked and nol D tire or ntr wild no 10 And little hllorn Jere crlug Cur broad I anti unter Holes mere lug In the solid to protect them from the hot tropic sun The next morning about four dock llder James 1enfolde had n dream 0 1In A Person came to him and told I b I vo to ge I Uri R nil call all l up anti go to the highest l place on the Met nnjllB em the north Fide of the leer where they would find cool I wale t So he culled nil up And told I them the elream and paid he was told they would nnd a turtle on the way and they must kill It for food All the men now at asted up 10 the center of the Islet In the morning and they due Ms they were told And In about twelve feet they found Ch water and they Illled their sacks lat they had naved 1 from the ship In coming back to camp they found a large turtle And had a hard fight to kill I but they cu oft Ito head a nil Pulled It don to cmp arid oponl I I was tat anti good anti wns full 01 eggs and II measured nhout six ct In diameter end weloho G00 pounds 10 they nil haI I Il good meat of turtle anti wDIr They had to I eat It raw 01 thcre man not my wood nor a rn i leaf I or grnss on the Islet So every morning they went up to get the uply oC Dlr ad on their return they found an old turtle about the its Pines n before and captured and klllt It for food old this was conln tied for about sixty dayn anti not n oul died or was much Ik Ther were a few things that floated to the bar from the wreck such as malls anti spare 01 hard bread And them things helped 10 make a shade or they cul Hot have meet In the hot Pun Thug it Th-ug In the Pand In many Places and fund bushels of turtle egg about an lar ns hens I slid eqnal ly 11 good to el Captain flood had I loved his quadrant from the Ollp anti h feel he on otgd lonnd that we wor In 1 latitude GI q suth find 1520 longl l tudo wt on Ihe RIIy group of un Inhabit I Inlands hcb are aboui 4 miles In circumference rind a large corral reef surrounds the oliole group After we had been her 2i days In our lonely prison awl had nol seen hlp or a rail Captain lon concluded 10 nt up The llfe hint a und go to sen and I enmh for n ship to take tin off so he I Ot r took ills two mates And sailors an tn a of the returning mlolnr1eq Julia f dH and Graham and btrtcd at i to sea Their provisions WTIS tunic alittlelrrdIburrZl alittlelrrd mt and water nnd a little hard bread that had bn staked In silt watee Thy were on the e many days 1l1 I could I not see any hip so they came 1 to tIo 1land of Iluahlna and found a whaler called the I mma Parker In 1 them for repalm I anti CptDln flood hired this ship to no and likn off out hrlhrn from their 10nI pnon Iln1 Illke t Ihm to Ihe Sandwich Island Tile Saints were very humble and prayerful nn the I A land In their long stay anti the lord h hear their prayers and onswerral th > m and tlld I heal their sick ono did change their system ra they could eat raw flesh And get iat on J hut the run had burned their skin so they were a dark as nDtVc 1lor I n J lnl Ilved I here nr Paypon for many years end to ked often of-ten of his wife and child that mere drowned In the Julia Anil AafASA iOTII |