EATEN BY SAVAGES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1078, 22 December 1882, Page 4

EATEN BY SAVAGES.

Some short time »go AT 'Cb'phun Hull it ccived a letter from Mr< hurles Samson, (iiv-t olllcT of the Glasgow Barque Ro-eucatli which foundered in the struts of Magellan on 13th Mft' last, announcing his sate uni al at Viilpaini-o, and the mui ih-r of his four •companions hy savages * 'apt. ■a l, his wife, ctul'h ami live pt the crew..if will he rernomheml, was pie tel up hy a passing steamer after Being s me days in the open host ami landed at I,in -lainiro. The mate's laiat with the carpenter, two ahle-hodied t-etnfien," a (I a hoy left, the ship ten minutes previous to the long ho it with the captain, and was carried to the South hy the strong cum nt which prevailed A course wan-shaped for the Horn, hut when five days on tho sea they were overtaken hy savages and erne ly murdered before his eyes. How ho s cceeded in escaping the death meted out to his comrades he does not say ; hut after living with them for 63 days, and living only upon mussels, heffected his escape, and was brought to Valparaiso As it is now several .Timmhssim-e the !!o>eheath went down, all hopes were given up of ever hearing of the unfortunate men, and Captain Hall sailed for Brisbane. Airs Hall accordingly communicated at once with .Messrs liatfield, Ciuinuou, and Co, Glasgow, who also had received a letter from Mr Samson hut giving no further particulars The men, it appears, all belong to Glasgow, and the two seamen were the steadiest men of the whole crew. No satisfactory particulars can however be gleaned till tbe arrival of the mate, who is due at l.i'crpoolby the mail steamer in about, ten (lavs. The ciptaiu’s boat, v. e learn, steered a northerly course, mud only c me across one boat with savages, who kept at a distance and did not molest them. The total number of the crew lost is thus live, one of them having succumbed to the exposure and hardshiu while in the open boat with .the captain.