Show Food Supplies Stored for Ear Castaway Sailors To be shipwrecked on some lonely Island bland or rock where there Is I. no food Is ts a fate which has tins often befallen be be- fallen sailors It is those spots of land which Arat Art are areat at a great crent distance e from the regular ocean highways where here the outlook for castaways Is Js so desperate Yet It Is just these very Tery Islands on tc to which a disabled ship may drift Typical 1 of these thee Islands blands are those thos called caned Amsterdam St St. Paul and the th Crozets lying to the south of the In In- dlan dian ocean In the old days sure star star- ration was the fate of ot any man stranded on St St. Paul Today he will find on the rock rocks beach a notice board bearing the In Inscription In French Food and clothIng clothing cloth cloth- ing for lor castaways Following the direction di dl Indicated by a wooden hand he comes cones across a rough stone hut In which there Is n a store of preserved beef biscuits biscuit woolen shirts blankets blank ets eta and matches matche All An these goods are art contained In strong barrels which can cnn be easily opened As Ion long I ago ngo as 1887 a 8 French ves ves- gel left beer biscuits and sardines on one of the the Crozet Islands Nearly twenty years rears after alter the food was as eaten by the shipwrecked crew of a Norwegian whaling expedition |