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Show I ABANDONED ON FtONCADOR. " riie Plight of' Two Wreckers About th Hones -of Vne Old Kearsarge. A rftory of the manner in which tin flalk cf the historic old Kearsarge, now whitening" -cu Roncador reef, is bdinjf Hespoiled by Caribbean sea wreckers, nd of the awkard predicament of two 3f them who were at work upon her, it Sold by Mate Schvolow of the schooner Frank M. Noyes, which arrived from Ban Andreaa with cocoanuts. On Oct 28, he say3, while outward ound from Baltimore," the Noyes stood Jose into the Kearsarge's wreck. To the lurprise of all on board a white flag was jeen fluttering from the bones of tho gallant old corvet, and soon after a imall boat was Eeen pulling off from her. Captain Asquini ordered the Noyes hove to, and in a few minutes she was boarded by two bearded wreckers who laid they belonged to one of the Carmen 'roup of islands. They told Captain As-juinl As-juinl they had been landed on the reefs bout the Kearsarge on Aug. 1 by a imall schooner, which was to call for Jhem in a couple of weeks. As soon as ihey had settled themselves they began work on the Kearsarge. In a short while they had secured 600 pounds of jopper and about 200 pounds of copper bolts. This was all of value they could ecure, so they settled down to wait for he schooner that was to take them and iheir plunder away. When they were landed on the reef, Ihey had a fairly good supply of provi-rious. provi-rious. August passed, and with its going their food and matches went. Septem ber came and went, and October had almost al-most gone when the Noyes was sighted nd in a measure ended iheir distress. For nearly two months the two men had lived on raw fish. They had no matches with which to kindle a fire, although the Kearsarge offered them her dry timbers tim-bers for the blaze. Neither had they salt jrith which to flavor their raw fish. One if them had a piece of sail cloth in hia aaouth which, he said, he had been ohewing 18 days in place of tobacco. Captain Asquini supplied the men with all that was necessary to sustain them for some time to coma They would not leave he reef, for they did not want to abandon their copper treasure. treas-ure. They appreciated Captain Asquini's kindness, and to show it they wished to return to the wreck and take back to him some mementos of the famous Craft. A favoring wind made Captain Asquini decline their offer, and soon tha Noyes filled her sails and sped off toward to-ward San Andreas. Baltimore Sun. . |
