SEAMEN ON GALAPAGOS GROUP.
O!LIVED , ON TORTOISE FOR: FIVE
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' y. ; v : •;-,v■ '.-i L'ondoS,'November 25. r'.jf- The captain and eight" survivors of tho . : : iron;.barque 161 f 4- tons,..which was ' y,' abandoned,- owing to shortness of:,provis- .; ions, *ori-tho way from Australia)to Panama, :;:.' wero ;Janded at-Guayaquil; ■ tho chief port ■6>' of the South American. Republicjl 'Ecuador. They-:were rescued- in' : a >'pitiablq plight ~: from Indefatigable Island, Galapagos Group, •■ .where they had .subsisted onc.tortoise for' ~'. fire.fjnonths.'. . '! i ■ The mate and nine othersjihad*previously been rescued from Albomarle 'island, in the . same group. . ; '.in i; nged arra; t dssfi le-hfthr'.h'rd.tap ctaota
Lying on the Equator,'?6oo 'miles- west of Ecuador, tho Galapagos group ns-n fairly remote -prison-house fox'ca'stawjiysivand although two of the islands— ChaHet and' Chatham—are inhabited by agricultural colonists;- the more remote members of fho group are little visited. Albeniarlo Island is the'largest'. The' English Barnes. were probably to-stowed by,,the buccaneers, but tho'.archipelago' now, belongs to Eciia'dqr: The mniiber.,,af, pi'atorertnot all exthe group wns'estima'ted,,.b'y Darwin at 2000. ■' T : •■■ :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 7
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165SEAMEN ON GALAPAGOS GROUP. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 7
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