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Show ! SHIPWRECKED CREW AMONG CANNIBALS BAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 5. Among the passengers who arrived here yesterday from Australia on the liner Sonoma wero ' Capt. Watts and Chief Officer Felix Stin-son Stin-son of the American ship Susquehanna, which foundered shortly after - she left Nehone, In New Caledonia, on August Zl last, with a cargo, of chrome iron for Delaware breakwater. The crew left the ship In three boats which were headed for the- Solomon islands. Only one beat landed there, the other two having been picked up at sea by a trading schooner. There the men were kindly treated for a time, but finally had to fly for their lives from a set of cannibals canni-bals who threatened their existence. They were subsequently picked up by -a trad-, ing vessel and joined the rest of the crew ' at 8ydney. ' ' |