BLOWN AWAY TO SEA.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 72, 8 March 1890, Page 2

BLOWN AWAY TO SEA.

By Ciiina papers to hand l.y iliv Tsiiun puriiciilars are to baud of tun fearful sufferings of some South 8w» Inlander, who bad been blown out i» in a canoe from the Pelew G.o.ip. The Joaeph 8. Spinney brought into Kob« on Jaauary 3 a shipwrecked crew of C South bra I*lundei>, whom sbu bad picked up iu an open cnuo>*. While making their way from one island to another, tbey ha.l been I linn 200 utiles out to sea, at d had, when, res-cu«-d, been adrift eighteen days without f<-od or water. The chief, or kiug. died from exhaustion after owing rescued, and the Spinney oock-billed her lower yards in eonsrquenoo. The chief and one or two of the others knew a little English, aud it has, therefore, been possible to gl»m some part of their story. On November 33, the men, seven in number, set out with their old king to pay s visit to a neighhouringekiof upon another tslaud, one of the Pelew Group, *itu»ted between the Phillipines on the east and the Caroline Islands on the wast. They were eight people alt told, aud the craft waa a dugout 80it long by 16 in. beam. Before they could roaen their port, a gale sprang up, and 'hay were rapidly blown Out to ana, at the mercy of the winde and waves, and without food and water. la thai awful plight, they remained for eighteen dava. or until December 11, when the old kiug, faint with hunger, ead sand with thirst decided that hi* son, a boy aged 16 years, most be killed In order that hie father and too ethers might live. Preparation* were made, and all but completed when the white tail* of the Spinney weia deemed on the boriaon. The boy was eavad. Slowly the big vernal coma up. and the poor wretohea were taken on board. The only two word* the old king could articulate an ho lay gasping & hie canoe won " rope, water." The avow presented n dreadful light. Their atomeeht had shrank ItiTaad their old chlof wae so wanted that the chief mate his arm. The only things la the boat warn a knife or two, • pair of iiiWui, ' a tattered straw sail, and two peddles. | The canoe waa huietedin, ite very etas i aloontntly nttenttag whert the aofer- . lags of tha men mm* have been, an* < •bwtoinovaorstrwtohtheirlimbafor I waat of space. When picked up, ah* \ emTSsm (hair nmmnmnhn i««a, la