Show TUK THE LATE SHIP RE carr olor C CAPE A 11 E noite extract of letter from david ja james meg late master ot of tile bark colorado of glasgow if II aing ing lost los our ship on 1 aten island on the hie of july last ast and having saved neither ne i ther efforts effects nor provisions we were then compelled to travel over the island lor jor ten days subsisting on oil nothing but sell fish and seaweed on the 1911 of july wo came re across rs another baity of seventeen the surviving part of the crew of tile british lii ship Duns Iun kuig keig of glasgow fourteen hiving baving perished ill through ex e ge alo men the ship was lost on oil tile lie ad 1 of I june inne and a lot of the cargo consisting n of KITS COCOA wai mas washed d ashore out of the wreck T there here was w is noth nothing 14 saved except the cocoa anti and wo we numbering twenty live five men were kelt alive on it up to the of august argust when we were rescued by the steamer mercuric of buenos ayres and landed lueie on oil lie of september too much praise e cannot be given to this cocoa for the preserved state that it was in after being in the bottom of the lie so sea in tile wreck of the Duns keig for a fortnight foit night and then washed asli ashore ore and ying lying on oil alie beach and rucks of staten island for about bix weeks subject to I 1 he exposure of the he severest weather on lie face of the globe tile the island is situated in a region robion of perpetual ice snow and storms and alter all this test it wis as flesh and dry as if in the works As we e had a good stock of it there we used it in ill a liquid state for drink and also made it in a thick state like porridge and we also aleo baked it on oil the tire fire which made splendid bread and kept us as alive and warm on this barren island |