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FRIENDLY AFRICANS

AMERICAN CASTAWAYS WELL TREATEDON SHORES OF INDIAN OCEAN. FOOD GIVEN TO STARVING MEN. (By Telegraph—. Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK. August 25. _ Captain Kuhne, master of an American merchantman which was sunk in June .in the Indian Ocean, told reporters how African natives rescued him and forty other survivors after a week of helpless drifting in lifeboats without food or water. When the starving survivors sighted the shore they were afraid of the uncanny lookingsavages, with knives hanging from their belts, which were their only, clothing, but the natives were friendly. They helped to beach the boats, fed the men and also taught them to catch crabs. Furthermore they bartered food —for example two matches for four bananas, or a life preserver for four chickens. They also gladly accepted coin, but refused dollar bills.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
140

FRIENDLY AFRICANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4

FRIENDLY AFRICANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4

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