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Show CHINE8E CRU80E6 IN PORT. Put to Sea on a Raft, Leaving Comrades Com-rades on Desert Isle, Singapore The Nam Hang, nr-tiled nr-tiled hem from Hong Ki,ng, picked up threo emaciated Chinese (-nolle on a bamboo rnft Tho men, who aie cry thlu, say that a month ago they nailed from Singapore In a Junk, the persons on tho craft numbering eight all told Kicrythlng went well till their w age had been u week In piogieaa, uml then one morning a terrible slnrni nroso and their vessel wus whirled be fore It like a corK After drUIng befuie the gale for some hours the Junk xudileuly went tn piece on a small Island and with good luck they all managed lo gut ashoie, though they were severely bruited and battered In the surf. For two weeks the eight men remained re-mained on the Island, tuning hvllllsli and drinking water caught In the crevice of rocka As no aull hoo In alght, three of the most dining do-rldod do-rldod to build n tuft and put to smi In llio hope of drifting Into the track of steamer Wllh the aid of their comrades the throe nd venturers built a tuft out of giant bamboo, which glow In pro-fuilon pro-fuilon on the Island, nnd with a stock of dried flih nnd n little Water put to aea one day amid the furowell shouts of their la daring coniradna. For six day the buoyant bamboo rnft drifted steadily anu from the Island without a single anil appearing on the horizon, nnd as their stock of food and water was gono the men pro-pared pro-pared to die. On the evening of the sixth day, however, imoke was seen on tho horizon and then the hull of a steamer steam-er camo Into low making right for tho castaway. Tho coolie say that they bellee their five comrade on the louely liland to bo Mill alive, but they cau not glvo It iollnn " |