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* AUSTRALIAN CASTAWAY'S j ADVENTURES. I .'By Cable—Pres3 Association.—Copyright.) I BRISBANE, February 22. A search steamer discovered Mackenzie, the snip survivor of the schooner Oroto, which was wrecked in a cyclone on January 19th. AVhen the Orote rapI sized the captain and his son and two J seamen were in the cabin. All of them were drowned. Mackenzie and another seaman were washed off the res.se!. The other was drowned. Mackenzie drifted on to -an island. He spent 10 days there, with little food, mokinp a raft of kerosene cases. Ho attempted to reach another island, but Io<;t the raft, and swam back. Ho spent ten more days on th« island, and built another raft, on which he reached a settler's house on Marble Island, almost exhausted from starvation.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16144, 23 February 1918, Page 8
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