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Show CASTAWAYS RESCUED. Thrilling Tale of Misadventures Told By llritlsh Soldiers. New York, Jan. 9. Captain P.. R. Shaw and the crew of ten of the British Brit-ish bark Glen Huntley, long given up for lost, are alive and well and on their way to Liverpool. They abandoned aband-oned the Glen Huntley in a fierce gale on June G, 1S98. For 154 days the eleven sailors lived on Tristan d'Acunha isle, more than 1,500 miles south by west of the Cape of Good Hope. .They subsisted on peguin eggs and the flesh of sea eag-les, and shared with the seventy-two white inhabitants the scanty stock of provisions that the captain cap-tain of a passing vessel could spare. After almost four months of such existence, ex-istence, the British warship Thrush, making an annual voyage of inspection through the South Atlantic, rescued the castaways, and late in November last landed them in Simons' bay, South Africa. A letter has been received from Captain Shaw which tells of his misfortunes. |