A HEROIC GIRL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2182, 31 March 1891, Page 4

A HEROIC GIRL.

News recently reached Florida from Hayti (says the Times) of a remarkable story of heroism on the part of a gir! of eighteen years, the daughter of a sea captain, who navigated her father's ship when he and all the crew were dawn with yellow fever. The "barque James H. Hamlin, a coasting vessel, bound from South American ports to Savannah, was last spoke at sea on December 15th off .Navassa, when all hands were reported ill with yellow fever, and no attempt wae made by the veaael which reported her to giye any assistance: It appears that Captain Annie, the master of the Hamlin, fell ill with the fever early in December, when the mate took command. He, too, fell ill, and one after another the crew came down until not a person was left to navigatt the ship, The captain had with him on board his only daughter, Miss Maud Annis, aged IS years, who appears to have been the last to catch the fever, With the aid of one or two sailors Who managed to crawl to the deck, she navigated the vessel for several hundreds of milea, and succeeded in reaching port with a crew dead and dying, and Captain Annia in a critical condition. From December 15th, when the Hamlin was spoken off Navaasi, nothing was heard of her until the steamship Alvo arrived at Aux Cayes, Hayti, with Captain Annie, hir daughter, and all the crew, except two men who had died. The captain died the day after reaching Aux Cayes,, and Miss Annia is dangerously ill and delirious. She is being nursed at the house of the British Consul. The remainder of the crew are recovering.