WRECK OF THE HENRY JAMES.
Auckland, May 20,
The barque Henry James, 945 tons, Captain E. Lattimore, bound from Newcastle to ’Frisco with coal, struck on a reef about 1300 miles from Samoa, on the night of the 19th April, and became a total wreck. The crew and passengers, numbering thirty souls, barely escaped with their lives. After a great deal of trouble they managed to reach the uninhabited Island of Palmyra, where cocoauutsi supplied them with food and drink. There is no water on the Island. After two days it was arranged that the mate and four of the crew should start in the cutter, and try to reach some place to procure help. They made for Samoa, which they reached in an exhausted condition after a passage of nineteen days. They had had nothing but cocoanut food to eat and cocoannt water to drink all the way. The schooner Yindez was despatched to rescue the shipwrecked party on the Island, including two women and four children. One of the women was near her confinement.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1743, 29 May 1888, Page 4
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176WRECK OF THE HENRY JAMES. Temuka Leader, Issue 1743, 29 May 1888, Page 4
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