SHIPWRECKED AMONG ZULUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2233, 28 July 1891, Page 3

SHIPWRECKED AMONG ZULUS.

A Dalziel telegram from New York says;—“A letter has been received stating that the British ship Neptune, Captain Saunders, from ; London, was wrecked on the coast of Natal, five persons being saved and fifty-three drowned. Allen, who was the purser, was shipped at Calcutta, and Kennan at Rangoon. The crew took to the boats, which capsized, and only five persons reached the land. They remained for nine days near the scene of the wreck, arid buried the bodies of the drowned, after which they, started to walk to Natal, a distance of 170 miles. On their way they were captured by a band of Zulus, stripped, tied to trees, and beaten with clubs made of rhinoceros hide. While they were undergoing torture a party of Boer hunters appeared and routed the Zulus. Three of the sailors had, however, been beaten to death, and only Allen and Kennan survived. The two men were taken to Natal by the Boers, and thence to Capetown by a steamer of the Castle line. Their condition is such that they have been unable to proceed to London. Kennan is insane from the torture inflicted upon him, and is unable to say anything. He is an American of about twenty-six years of age. A despatch from St. Joseph says that Kennari lived in that city until about a year ago, where he was a clerk in a draper’s shop.