Show CT CAST UPON AN ISLAND ONE OF THE SURVIVORS OF A shipwrecked CREW I 1 sufferings to in the boat vo so taste or of food for or six day ys afe ufe amoni mont the fijians A concert gotten up on Chris tums dat ERE BRE Is the story of the wreck of the 00 I 1 norwegian b k r k I 1 celadon Se ladon told by the second mate i mr aissen to a represent at I 1 v e of the london news he also gives an account of the adventures of the survive r s these numbering sixteen were brought to england by the orizaba from sydney spent the night at the scandinavia sailors home by the west india docks and left for norway the next morning the bark was on her way laden with coal from newcastle N S W to honolulu they were threading their way through these dangerous seas amid the treacherous currents which rage hereabouts swe sweeping eDing backward and forward at the rate of as much as forty to fifty miles in the twenty four hours when late one night they struck they backed the yards but in vain the bark was fast and her back was broken two boats were hurriedly lowered eight men including the captain and mr aissen getting into one the chief mate and seven men getting into the other they lay off the sunken reef on which they had struck until daylight hoping that they would be able to get more food and especially the sextant and chronometer but when day dawned the seas were beating fiercely over her and they steered northward hoping to make christmas island or some inhabited land the crew had only two breakers of water a few tins of beef salmon and sardines and a bag or two of biscuits they had also a compass and a chart of the south seas and various odds and ends being close to the equator eau ator which as a matter of fact they crossed twice before they eventually reached land the sun beat down upon them mercilessly though now and then clouds hid faid it tor for a while and also kept them supplied with water the rain water was caught in the saps and thence poured into the breakers the allowance was four spoonfuls at 6 in the morning and four spoonfuls at Cp nt at night the men kept watch as though they had bad been in their own ship four on and four off one steered one saw to the sail the other balled perhaps that is until they could not walk from one end of the boat to the other but though fearfully weak this was not yet the captain was the first to go about dinner time how prim these every day words sound in dealing with such a story the captain said to mr I 1 dont think I 1 shall last long oh yes captain you will give me a little water said the captain so blasen seeing that he was nearly dead called to the steward and whispered let him have just a spoonful the captain swallowed it and lay down on the thwarts when looked down again he was dead this was about 5 in the afternoon the captain had brought a bag ba with nun and clothes in it charts and one or wo swo trifles after the wreck they took off his watch which contained photographs of his wife and children emptied a bag and reverently reveren tl y placed tho the captain in it it they spoke as much as they could remember of the service for the dead sang some simple hymn which is sung in norwegian houses when one is dead lifted his remains on to the gunwale and let him fau fail gently into the ocean he sank at once at last they took their last meal and for six days dayi never tasted food on the thirtieth morning landaas land was sighted and they came up to one of the innumerable coral islands which stud the southern seas A tearful fearful surf was lashing it but they ran the boat ashore she was w shivered to little bits two natives of the fijian group came running down one brandishing a tomahawk and a long knife but ut he was able to speak a little english and on mr aissen saying they were shipwrecked men the two natives and their families proved good friends to the miserable men the carpenter was delirious deUr lous and could not walk so they wheeled him UP op to the huts in a wheelbarrow the ret rest being too weak to walk alone took one an others arms and thus managed to follow their comrades the gave them three bottles of beer and the remains ot of some emcken chicken they also killed a pig cooking it in the ground in native fashion but not one of the men was hungry however in a few days they slowly began to recover the use nse of their limbs gal all but poor chips the carpenter who died he was a man of GO 60 and now began their life on this uny tiny island which was practically a desert out but for a few bananas adans and cocoanut cocat coco anut palms they built themselves a hut hat cut roads planted a little blittle prepared copra and did the best they could during six jax mouths months the turtles came ash ashore to deposit their eggs and were caught eaten gr or dropped lor for stock into IL a tiny lagoon in the middle of oath the island they caught some small seabirds sea birds of which mr does d oes not knot know the name ate and fai for ja a bew had r the lew bowls or pla pigs i A to the ae ZaUl natives res nils V i 0 1 bov I 1 fare 14 li laichy kay I 1 attey lj aind auni I 1 fools a p pair r of scissors 1 and id ie I 1 trw L ie T in I 1 I IF F 11 C za T 14 I 1 AS 7 r I 1 Z 4 4 f 60 pk zu t k 1 4 into robinson crushes Cru having ba matches they zot got fire ate by sticks together and on day they even managed to got get up cp ft a little concert beneath the lovely tropic moon having in tact fact found a broken accordion and patched it up in honor ot of the day on the of july 1897 looking out over the ocean one morning a sall sail was sighted which grew bigger aind aa bigger greatly excited lumped jumped into a little boat belonging to the natives native and put off to her she was a little government cruiser her cap tain and were soon emu at close quarters and after some debate the visitor vator having but a scant provision on board agreed to take the crew to su an ral on the condition that they brought some of their turtle aL aboard board which they did and arrived safely in FUI FIJI sailing in another norwegian bark for sydney where they went aboard the orizaba and sailed for england |