to live on 'beans. I caught a few fish and dried‘them. When I* saw that 1 waii in for 'it, I began catching rain water whenever there was a shower. Fortunately, it rained enough. Several times I sighted steamships, but 1 Mas so low in the water that they couldn’t see me, and I couldn’t get, anywhere near them. I didn t have any way of signalling. I guess I went out of my head trying to make those steamers see me.” His food supply ran out three •days before h 6 was rescued, and he had to subsist on water alone. He lost fiftv pounds in weight while adrift, weighing but 140 pounds when picked up, A quaint- not<f 'was added when RigPs exhibited two sweaters lip had knitted to keep himself occupied durinrir {fig voyage, and prevent him brood, ing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1932, Page 6
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