Ten Pays Without Food

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 127, 3 May 1887, Page 3

Ten Pays Without Food

steatoer Hbnfkut (€aptain Loff) was proceed- • ing on JanrlSi^an^ extraordinary dia«ov«ry iror made. A> coolie was found underneath the : hollow of the lower.. > beam ittjtha. forehold in «o«maoiated and semi-unconscious eonlilian, evidently just awaking from »4enif stupor, which there is every rearon for supposing" must have lasted foUy ten days The cootie was token on deck, and with; the: fresh air hia appejt^ returned. -Tea and food were administered to him in small quantities hy order of the captain, and it seemed asif his 'appetite increased as lie ate, for he continued clamourously to demand more tea and food. The coolie's mind seems to have retained no impression of what occurred to *" hun daring the, time that he was immured in the hold, and as yet he has not even been able to tell how he got there. AU he can say is he has been asleep for a long time-^how long, however, he cannot say. In the absence of any explanation by the man himself, the only supposition that can be made is that the coolie formed part of the gang engaged in stewing the rice in the forehold of the vMongkut, outside Bangkok: oar on the forenoon of Jan. 18. It is probable that after his work was done he he bad taken a smoke of opium, and, overcome with drowsiness, had craw-; led underneath this beam, where there is just room for a man to lie stfcftched out on. his back and enjoy » more or less comfortable snooze. ffcWhen the hatch was closed, the other <coolies had doubtless failed to observe their sleeping companion and he was loft buried in the rice bags. The mobt heat from the rice had kept his body warm, and the clammy air in the hold must have brought the man into a comatose condition, from which he awoke only when fresh air was admitted. In such surroundings and in such a condition of body, there must bare been very little waste of force sad there would be nothing improbabitfin iris Hying even longer than ten d»ys. The sweat from the rice had „ doubtless keep his body moist, and Ajtevented his succumbing from prol^Bged tw'rafc.-^Cbina Mail. 'Troth saVa-jtfeat a^affecent examination jft^r^adetsbipsitn the Royal Military Academy, »: young gentleman, who had ibaen ploughed in orthography on a >fprmeroeoa.Bion, just managed to scrape through* He at once wired to his father Ji&ihehtid-'pist.''