A Waif of the Sea.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 270, 31 December 1903, Page 4

A Waif of the Sea.

Somewhere on the broad Atlantic —unless an unkind fate has by this time wrecked it—.there is n 19t't decked sailing craft, with a > 4 ft beai.i bearing t'>« name of Columbia 11.. and carryuvg a crew of one, Captain Brown, who js endeavouring to make, single-handed, a voyaige oi 4910 miles from Boston, U.S.A., to Marseilles. On bis thirty - seventh day out from Boston Captain Brown was sighted by the British steamer Greenbrier, bound from Manchester tP Jamaica. The captain of the Urewdirier bore down on the lonely craft, thinking ahe contained a shipwrecked crew; and offered assistance. Captain Brown, at has invitation, boarded the steamer, but explained that all he needed was fresh food. His craft, he said, had been capsized in a terrific gale on Sept. 6, and it was only after some hours of desperate work that he succeeded in righting her, and continuing his perilous voyage. But he had lost all his fresh provisions and water, and suffered terribly until lie was able to catch some rain water in his oilcoat. Captain Blower, of the Greenbrier, was unable to i»ersuade Captain Brown to u>l«iridon his cruise, but was able to give him some fresh mutton, soft bread, rope., books, and water.