THE ANTIPODES WRECK .

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 127, 20 May 1908, Page 2

THE ANTIPODES WRECK .

HOW THE I'TUiNCILUEN FAKED. STATEMENT Bi CAPTAIN BULLONS. ] I'er Press Association. Dttnedin, i-ast Night. 11l Connection with Statements HUldo i concerning Hi,/ life ui' the crew of the Piwidciit Felix Faurc during their entoreod residence un Antipodes Island, Captain Bullous, of the llinenina, who hud visited the island frequently during I the past twenty-live years, informed a I t lilies re)i(irter Dial the depot wan provided Willi tinned liread, meal, n medi-cino-chcst, tomahawk, dripping, matchus (ordinary boxes of wax vesias in secure box), fish-hooks ami holiing-liucs. bucket, • and a boiler. So far as he could re

member, there was no gun or aniiniini lion, bin lie believed a spado had been under tile shelter hut. The latter »n----cpiiie close to a novel-failing supply ol hpleudid water with a pool 'large i noiigh to bath- in. If there were no penguins I after Die lirsl few days, there were lens 1 of thousands of young albatrosses which would i>e ipiite fat and fully a* palatable as voting mutton birds, and these could be found almost anywhere on

tlu'ir nests. To vary* the diet, nuitloi birds' eggs and young could be übtuinci from countless burrows almost any where on the island. For vegetable.the root of the broad-lea ved a rait

(still liocarpus Polaris) is said to be excellent, whilst the leaver form a good substitute for spinach. - The idea of the men running the risk of scurvv was ridiculed by Captain Holloas and in support of hi* contention | he referred to the wreck of the Spirit j of the Dawn on tlie island on fill Sejr tember. 1893. 'J In.' «' l:w o1 Ulls V( ' s , had no bread, no matches, no lire, and no house. They lived in a cave, slop on gra,-,s Beds, and. subsisted almost | solely upon iresh penguins and eggs, all of which thev ate raw, and when res cued were in the best of health and unite fat. The only sign of illness wiw that of a Rangoon coolie boy who hail .had his toes frost-latten. There was absolutely no sign of hcuivv. "Speaking from inv own knowledge of the island, its resources and depot supplies," said tlie captain, ,l I cannot understand some of the statements which have appeared ! in the papers, and I think there must I be some mistake somewhere."