CREW OF CRUSOES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 146, 17 July 1909, Page 3

CREW OF CRUSOES.

MAROONED OX AN UXIXIIABITED ISLAND. News was received recently at Queens town of the total loss of the .British voss'el Addie Beatrice oil Bth April, or a roof of rooks oIT Myn iguana island. in the Bahama* firoup, while oil n vovagt from Bermuda to Mobile. The crow of eight men and the cap taill's wife, afler clinging to the wreck for twenty-four hours in a furious storm, manured io roach an uninhabited and barren island, where they were marooned for fwolvo days. suJTerbif oroat privations. Owing to want oi food and water the caraways s'et sail jn an open boal for Cattle Island, lOfl miles' distant, arriving there in a terribly exhausted state. Captain Wallers say* that the crow ttivwi a little water, some salt pork, and wa'ter-soaked biscuit, and on those okod out a wretched existence. A quantity of canvas -was also taken oil', and I te-its were constructed. L Daily catches of a few lis'li added to their provisions, and frequent rains sup'.plied sufficient water to quench their i thirst. although the intervals were somo--1 times painfully long. Some of thn men explored the little island, but found no •ign of habitation. 'Subsequently thev were rescued by a passing steamer and taken to the nearest British port.