LYTTELTON.
This day.
Arrived: ship Eangitikei, from London, with 5b passengers and a large cargo, 105 days from the docks, 98 days from land to land. On September sth, in lat. 9 S, she picked up two Portuguese sailors, part of the crew of the Portuguese ship Amerique. They had been in the water in a swamped boat for 50 hours. Two others of the boat's crew had been seized by sharks, and two more died from exhaustion. The survivors had to beat the sharks off with the bottom boards of the boat. On November 4th, a saloon passenger, the Rev. W. Marwick Craipie, died from phthisis, and on November Bth a seaman named N. S. Cornish was washed overboard during a tremendous gale.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3045, 18 November 1878, Page 2
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124LYTTELTON. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3045, 18 November 1878, Page 2
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