Show never er to land alive now york dec 8 within a short sailing distance of this port and twice beaten back after a two months mouths voyage was the story told by the little schooner mildred which has arrived here fifty six days out from san bias blas central america with a cargo ot of co coa nuts the crew was forced to uso use cocoanut coco anut milk in place of water wate r t the h e meat tor for food and the she shells ils for fl fire r e capt tibbett of the schooner eald sald as a he landed thank god it Is all over now I 1 never expected to get here alive P according to the account of the voyage given by the captain the mildred as boon soon as she left san bias blas encountered rough weather december ath the little schooner out of provisions and with the crew exhausted and discouraged arrived off cape may there she tell fell in with the pilot boat philadelphia which supplied her with provisions and I water vater for a number of 0 days the pro timons and water on the mildred bad had been exhausted and the men had lived on the cocoanuts cocoa nuts the sli shells ells as well wells as some ot of the woodwork of the ship were burned in the galley fire in order to give warmth to the men who bad had tor for nearly forty days in the midst of a series ot of storms the little food furnished to the crew by the pilot boat was enough to keep them from starvation and to give them courage to proceed on their voyage to this port once more the mildred started on her way only to meet a heavy storm again this time the captain put jn for shoal water and anchored the storm increased and both the anchors of the mildred were carried away capt tibbett then ordered all the sails remaining set and managed to work the vessel out to sea finally the tug projector was sighted and she brought the mildred into port |