RESCUE BY NATIVES
Sailors’ Experience
NEW YORK, August 25
Captain Kuhne, of an American merchantman which was sunk in June in the Indian Ocean, told reporters how African natives rescued him and 40 other survivors after they had spent a week drifting helplessly in a lifeboat, without food and water. When the starving survivors sighted the shore they were afraid of uncanny-looking blacks with knives hanging from their belts, which were their only clothing. The natives, however, were friendly. They heli>ed to beach the boats, fed tlie men, and also taught them how to catch crabs. Furthermore, they bartered food for other possessions, for example, two matches for four bananas or a life-preserver for four chickens. They also gladly accepted coins, but refused dollar bills.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 5
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125RESCUE BY NATIVES Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 5
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