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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 149, 14 May 1901, Page 3

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—*: f: Hvmn .VLal*lo. The Sydney aaJ. mUics have raaciW'l in for urn; wn aid two of the crow of the slip. Angola, which loft Newcastle with a cargo of epai early lust year for .uaniu., after leaving which port she was not again hoard of, have reached Singapore. The survivors are seamen named Jo ban sen, a Swede, and Martioorua, a .Spaniard. They tell tha following story; —'‘The Angola, under the command o' Oapfcain Brok, -and with a crew •which numbered eighteen, lef... 0a vise, Philippine Islands, on October 12th last. Six days after she struck a barren reef. Two of the sailors were drowned when she struck. They remained ou the vessel four days, when, fearing food would give out, they put off on two rafts, one carrying twelve, including the survivors, and the other five men. After floating’ together one day they lost sight of the small raft and never saw i! again, We drifted on day afte day, the provisions getting shorte and shorter, and hy the fifteem'd day things were absolutely de.-ea • rate. We had no proper food, am for some time had been eating on boots and the barnacles from th •: raft and chewing seaweed, wide* made all well nigh mad. Tw became crazy and jumped into tin sea, and suddenly a French sailo seized an axe and cleft open th : skull of the first mate, killing him instantly. Ho then tried to em the body, but we got it from him and threw it overboard. He immediately seized the axe again, which wrs still wet v/ich the ra do’s, blood, and rushed at the captain to_, strike him. 'The second mate rolled him to the ground with an axe, despatching him on the spot. Jch:Ui3on admitted that they at, 1 part of the Frenchman's body. A? er this they drifted in a most awful plight for seventeen days, enduring sufferings too horrible to viescrib-j. One after another they became mad ami died The captain succumbed twenty-eight days after they started, r iirdly, there were on ! y two survivors left, and

.h;'y iluatad on to S-mbi, a .'anal l i land between Morneo and f e i/ui-ipiuaea. They wove in a terrible condition, th«ir bod- s co'/cred with sores, and th-w were unable to lift tbeta.-a-lvos from i.he raft. A .Malay.an sain? fonud them ond too]-: them ashore and tended them carefully. Who.n they recovered t'u-y wore sent to yingaporo ia t!i s On; ion j ml: Togo la, which was owned by Musser, of Nova Sofia.