A VOYAGE FOR LOVE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1718, 5 February 1874, Page 2

A VOYAGE FOR LOVE.

In the annals of maratime adventure no precedent could .perhaps. ,b,e (! .found. , for a, voyage undertaken for love in so" frail a craft j , ajs thij^described.by the; Rqcfc]iamptq)i BullAtin: — " On the night of the 4th ult., as the brig Phyllis was lying near : the mouth of thjc Fitzroy River, Captain M'Eachern saw what he^at -.fir^t. .took to. be-a-log of, wood, floating past "bis 'ship." 'He 'subseque'ntty noticed something move, on.it, and immediately senlt a boat away in 'charge of th'o first mate, wlio in a'Bhort; time with, two men and a raft made of an ordinary, ship's ladder lashed a .^seaman's '.cHes't!' JThe^ men wereforeign ; sailors) ancLfiyere' y i ery' r much fexhaving, 'al they v said, J been ( iri th|e water without food for twenty-four hours, during ; which, time, they had come only 16! hiiles. ( It'was further learned from" them by "'sijgnti and a little German and Engh'sh com'"'Bhied',' th^t jihey'had TOn'aVay from the, immigrant' " ship" ' Eugenie'," ' and; : when ; a^p!d' ■where they weref going with theiri frail craft, ' ; - replied, • To Rockhampton. to see our sweet•'l hearts.' ; They l also stated th'afc another fiian *h«d left, 1 or was going to leave the ship with h| th^|'interition;of swimming ashore for the. ■"•jaatrie purpose -Captain M'Eachern took them •'^dn 1 board, and gave them a hot supper, "iltis rather remarkable, considering the ntimber of. sharks that infest ,the\bay, !; that; the! men shodld have'so'long rdmairie'd'iiithe water, balancing the ladder ofa the sea-chest, with- ;. out,. molestation.. ; .Captain, Kock,; of jr the • Eugenic, 1 expresses ! great • sympathy ' for|the men, and describes them as young but -good sailors, and, as not haying any of, i he- 1 ciast'o* sitiiatidh'of Rockha'mp'tdn. The" .''.'captain. also thinks that themen's sole desire - :,waß, as they /aaid,-to,;go ,pn,,sh.i>re and see h> j their sweethearts, and does not attribute their "desertion to any' other drcumstance." '6