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Show SHIPWRECKED CREWRETURNS British Steamer Rescues Americans Am-ericans From Uninhabited Island in Pacific. Norfolk Island. Aus . Dec. 30 The shipwrecked crew of the El Dorado of San Francisco, after a forced stay of six months on Easter Island, a Chilean possession about 2,000 miles out In the Pacific ocean, were rescued, res-cued, it was learned today, by the Knight of the Garter, a British Steamer on a voyage from Valparaiso to New Castle. N S W The El Dorado which left Columbia river on April 1 for Antofagasta, was ) abandoned at sea on Jime 13 and her crew of eleven men made their way In a boat to Easter Island. The place Is practically uniuhabited and Is out of all trade routes. The captain. N. Benson, decided, therefore, to risk another voyage in his small boat and with three volunteers set out to sea. leaving bis two mates, the ship's cook and four sailors behind. He set off and after a 28-day voyage reached Papeete, one of the Society Islands, on November 5, when he reported the predicament of his shipmates. Nothing further was beard of the shipwrecked men till tbe arrival at tho cable station here of the Knight of the Garter, which had tho rest of the El Dorado's crow on board. |