RELICS OF PAST CENTURIES.
Skulls and human bones in great minibprs have been washed ashore on the Brittany coast at Plozevet. in the Bav of Audiernc. Tn this bay was wrecked, on January 21', 1197, the Republican ship Les Droits de I'Homme, which had been pursued by two English frigates, and drove straight on to the rocks of the wild and pitiless coast. Every man on board perished in the shipwreck, except one, an English prisoner. Soon afterwards some fiOO bodies were washed up by the sea, and were buried in the sand dunes which encircle the Bay of Audiernc, but which have since been invaded by the sea. With the. crumbling coasts the remains of the French sailors were taken back into the deep, and now once more the sea is giving up its dead.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 19 August 1911, Page 8
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136RELICS OF PAST CENTURIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 19 August 1911, Page 8
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