LEFT TO PERISH.
A FISHING COLONY DIES OF STARVATION. IN ARCTIC WATERS. By Association-Copyright Paris, August 15. Tho "Petit Parisian's" St. Petersburg correspondent reports that an expedition to Nova Zembla (in tho Arctic Ocean) discovered the diary of the last survivor of a fishing colony 'of ono hundred persons, established there in 1909, showing that the colony had been neglected, supplies being cut off for ten months. All tho colonists had perished from disease or starvation. Tlio dead lay around the bare huts; several had died clasping their children to them.
The diarist's last entry showed that his companions >ate their clothing . and that oi the corpses. Ho wrote until his fingers and eyes failed him. ■
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1831, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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116LEFT TO PERISH. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1831, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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