DRIFT IN THE PACIFIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1915, Page 6

DRIFT IN THE PACIFIC.

IJIANS- EXCITING EXPERIENCE During tire month of November six: ijians going from Yasawa to iwa, the most westerly of the Fiji; ilands. Ifc,'was a comparatively short !-ip, but bad weather came on, and ley were-.blown out of their course, he boat was only a half-decked one, ad as the. seas were running mduniiins high at the time the position of ie Fijian "boys" was perilous. One krrific gust whipped the sail off the last. In the circumstances it was impossible to beat against the wind, nd the nien could do was to let the oat drifts This state of affairs continued for 3 days, and eventually one of the iolomon Islands was sighted. The oat had travelled over 1000 miles, nd for. the last four days the crew iad been without food, and suffered a jood deal from exposure. When the sland was, nearly reached they left he boat and swam ashore.

They were looked after by the Solotton Islanders, and eventually ".' the aission steamer. Southern Cross, fell-known in Sydney waters, picked hem up and took them to Auckland, from there the. Canada' Cape brought hem to Suva, where they had been jiven up for lost.