SAILORS' LAST FAREWELL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 9

SAILORS' LAST FAREWELL.

A bottle which (says the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" on December 25) was washed up by the sea yesterday at Bordeaux was found to contain several letters written by the sailors of the i!afacl, from Monte Video, which was wrecked on the night of December 21 on the rocky coast of tfauvage, at the mouth of the Uironde. The following are some of the letters written during-tho storm:— Tho person who finds this paper to give it to the marine authorities at Bilbao and to communicate, it to our families, to whom wo send our last farewell. Drawn up on board the .steamer liafacl, wrecked oft Bordeaux. Alfredo Jditerro, first officer. Alfredo Gonzalez, second officer. [ Diego Divicta, third officer. Pedro Lopez, carpenter. Geo. I'aing, apprentice. P.S.—We die fully conscious. The caira of our death is that tho chain of the helm has broken. I say a last good-bvc to mv familv. THE CAPTAIN. To my dear mother, my brothers, and all the members of my' family, I say good-bye for ever in a shipwreck off Harden nx.—Pedro Lopez. Good-bye, my dear parents, your son leaves you because of a gale which has swallowed up our boat; my memories are with me even into the other world. Your son that loves you with nil his heart — tiro. I'aing. To my mother, good-bye. At the hour of my death I ask you to forgive me. Good-bye, my brothers. Do not weep for me. Snrnr. Good-bye, mother, I send you my last good-bye. We are wrecked in sight of Bordeaux without being able to see our dear ones.—Alfredo Pereecion. Vivo bodies were washed up bv Ihe lid'. All had been battered against, the rocks. \