THE SARAH W. HINT'S CREW.
The six men who were found by the Stella on Caulpbell Island, and who' were brought oh -to Dunedin, are at present m the Dunedin hospital. It was intended to, have brought them ou to Lyttelton m the Stella on Friday, but the stearuerV. stay at Duuedin was too .short, to admit of this being done. The men, all of them young, were m a deplorable physical condition when they were taken off- the island; and are still suffering from the privations they had undergone. They are reported to be au altogether better sort of yonug fellows, and state that previous' to shipping on the schooner they had no nautical experience whatever. They aie most reticent ia respect to how they came to undertake a sealing voyage; but from what oould be gathered from the reluctant statements made to those who have questioned thenij they ate very unwilling to rejoin the , vessel. Some of them stoutly . affirm,: that they were unaware of the nature of the voyage they had set put upon, and were unprepared for the sort of treatment they allege having been subjected to. The substance of their complaints, it is said, will be made, a matter for holding an inquiry into upon their arrival at Lyttelton.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 33, 8 January 1884, Page 2
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214THE SARAH W. HINT'S CREW. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 33, 8 January 1884, Page 2
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