FIGHT WITH SHARKS.
SURVIVORS OF BURNT BARQUE. * CASTAWAYS ON REMOTE ISLANDBy Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt, Wellington, Last Night. The Marama, which arrived ..at Wei- < lington to-day from ’Frisco, landed at ’Frisco on September 20 twenty-three members of the crew of the Italian barque Monte Bianca, from Newcastle to Italy, which was burned at sea and abandoned on June 23 in latitude 30 south 106 east, 400 miles from land. The crew manned one large lifeboat’ tat nighttime and rowed for seven days, eventually reaching Tubai .Island, in the Society Group. When rowing the boat they were attacked by sharks, but the men battled for three hours, cutting and slashing the sharks with knives for their lives.
On Tubai, a remote island, they ex>isted for 54 days on berries, wild game and fish, wbjle they drank the juice of native trees. They sighted a steamer and attracted her by fires, and tho steamer conveyed the crew to Papeete.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1921, Page 5
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155FIGHT WITH SHARKS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1921, Page 5
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