SUFFERINGS FROM SHIPWRECK.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 210, 14 April 1877, Page 2

SUFFERINGS FROM SHIPWRECK.

B '.stox, 21st February. —A letter from Capt. Kano, of the schooner McDonald, dated Gome, west coast of Africa, January 24th, says that on the outward passage from Boston he fell in with the wreck of the British bark Marie, having on board the two survivors of the crew of fourteen men, the others having perished. The bark was bound from Dobny, Georgia, to Ireland. Flic sprung a leak in a gale, rendering it impossible to save the provisions and fresh water. The crew began to die of starvation As soon as one died the rest subsisted upon his dead body, and so on until only two were left. Cm ot the survivors, James McLangmin, b longs to Belfast, Ireland, and says only small portions o[ bodies could bo eaten. No mm was killed, hut the moment one died the survivors cut the throat of deceased, and drank the hlood, and then divided the heart and brains. It was thirty-two days from the lime ol the disaster until the wreck was sighted, and during all that time ttic crew had not a drop of water, or oilier food than the bodies of their dead shipmates.

“ Funny monkey,” said Mrs Partington, as she saw him patiently sitting, ‘‘but ho sots as if ho had plumbago in the back, and L could wish there was more hair on Ids represensible tail. I cannot yet believe, neither, that they’re our posterity.” The thing we call ‘‘public; Opinion” is based upon the sweet consciousness that the majority of us are an awful clever seV of chaps, and that the other fellows don’t thime so are pretty generally fools. “ Ladies and gentlemen,” said an Irish manager to his audience of throe, “as there is nobody here I will dismiss you all ; the performance of this night will not be performed, but will be repeated tomorrow evening.”

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