Show LIVE IVf ON STEW STEWED CD ROPE I I P Party of 0 Castaways Castaway Kept Alive O or i Peculiar Diet The hardest fare that six young oung men men and a boy of 15 ever ver kept alive on n was waa the daily dally menu of the Windover's Wind Wind- overs over's survivors who were cast upon up upon on on n the Irish coast near They lived for sixteen days on stewed rope yarn ram without a crumb of anything else to help digest it except water and nd though it made them ill UJ they kept alive on it and did not waste away very veO much The Windover was dismantled and abandoned about 1000 miles out on the Atlantic The crew took to the whaleboat at and set out for Britain BeIng Being Be Be- ing In too much of a hurry they took too little food but three large butts ft of water besides the tank the boat boaty already held The result was that y they afe ate up their tl p provisions in four four days but had water enough for a month and after starving two days more they tried boiling le lengths of f tarred hemp rope Into a a 8 pulp and wallowing swallowing it They had bad a of paraffin wax and though It made them then y very ry H at first a they ther eventually contrived to to live on the boiled hemp the tar boiled to a aF F 9 jelly adding to the nourishment of the rope y |