FULLER PARTICULARS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2437, 28 October 1886, Page 2

FULLER PARTICULARS

From Caffrey's statements mado during the voyage in the Wailiora,, it appears that he had no instruments, only a compass to aid him in his endeavors to roach the South American coast. He had no.idea of taking sights but lie thought 'that as tho American coast ran north and south he could not fail to hit it. On the second day a fearful galo sprang up, and during its continuance Caffrey was nearly killed. It appears, from his statement, that tho mainboom suddenly jibed, and, m swinging, caught Caffrey and jammed him down to the top of the companionway. Just as the boom was crushing his breast the sheet took the strain off the boom and so saved him He for a long 1

tine suffered from the effects of tho accident. Tliia occurred when the vessel' was <jff the Bay of Plenty. Ho snji he never before in his li p e saw. such a frightful sea as during that gale,- but the cutter, lie says, behaved splendidly. Although he still adhered to his determination to reach the American coast, he whs continually beaten Lack to .the northward by adverse winds,' and then striking the S.E, Trades -he was still further carried back north. The most strange part of the whole voyage was that no land was sighted after leaving New Zealand until three months afterward, when tho Australian coast was picked up in the tropics, and there the iie.it was' fearful. "Findinsj,"that it. was impossible t.omake for the south American const, Oaffrey made up his mind to try to reach Tasmania, but everything appeared to go against them, and . they eventually landed as already known. Oaffrey is of opinion that he would not have been caught had it not been for the wreckage of the cutter drifting northward before going ashore, for where they landed was a bleak uninhabited spot, The cutter did not break up where she w.us benched until next day Cafiroy, after remaining ten days at the spot where they all got on shore, could stand the loneliness of t.lie place no longer, and so started, away, leaving Ponn and the girl behind. Thorn was a small and apparently" uninhabitfld house close to where they wero, and Oaffrey nightly sneaked round and round it. but dared not go in. Caffrey-worked north, where ho was arrested, fle had no money or food,