The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-07-08
Asstorv OF Terrible Sufferine. +.

+ ASStory Of Terrible Suffering.
The following extraordinary tale Of n
ship.wrecked crew and the terrible fate
of all except single survivor whose
adventures equal those Of Robson CRU
soc. appears in Paris letter to the New
Orleans Picayune:
I'm the month of August, 1853, the
French shin AdeIIns A..iza quilted no'
deaux for Hong Kong. A month after.
wards she was spoken off Cape of Good
Hope She was never heard Of agai n
until few days since her history and
the history Of all her crew became pub
lie. A typhoon in the Indian Ocean
threw her out of her course, dismaste d
her, broke her rudder aud tossed her
towards Oceanica. Bad weather con.
tinued thirty days and when fair
weather returned she struck upon a
coral reef, and the exhausted crew were
scarcely able to take refuge in boats
1t was a moonless, starless night when
this accident occurred. They rowed
wildly and thanked God when the
breaking day showed them a harbor,
surrounded by a charming landscape
They reached land and laid down to
sleep. When they awoke they found
themselves bound hand & foot, and sur
rounded by savages. Their captors
proved to be camibals. Eleven Of them
including their Captain, were slain and
eaten. Three others contrived (how
does not yet appear to make their es-
cape, but they were mutilat8d. The
one who has succeeded in reaching Eu-
rope has one arm cut off and one eye
torn out. The three reached n remote
part of the island, where they found. a
canoe and embarked in it, preferring
the risk of being devoured by sharks to
the certainty of being killed and eaten
10y canibaIs. Fortunately they found
themselves in an archipelago, and were
enable to 60 from one island to another
After wandering for some time, moving
AS rapidly as possible from the caniba!'s
home, George Samazon's two cOmpan-
ions died of exhaustion. He remained
alone, mutilated, hopeless, upon frail
canoe. He, nevertheless. continued to
push on, touching land only when abso-
lutely necessary to sleep and to get wa
ter and food. lie ate shell fish and roots
One day he reached the last island of the
group, and nothing lay before him but
the wide ocean. He set to work to build
IA raft. 1t took him year. lie launch
ed it. The waves threw it back on the
island. He several times tried to put it
out to sea, but constantly failed. He re-
solved to turn his footsteps landward.
but in a different direction from the
canibal's home. He climbed a noun.
tain, crossed dessert, fell again into
savage hands, once more escaped from
them fled through forests; his feet were
bitten by venomous insects, his face
scabbed with the bites of mosquitoes; at
last, nearer dead than alive, he came
upon white men. He had been walk
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~ by allowing q portion of my claim,
.,'. in Justice to some who have spoke
Wv me, desire to say that always X
0e they would not knowingly counten
such an act Of reputation.
So much for the facts. but now for
ing Shearer's logic. He calls me imp
~ s nent and saucy, for simply deman
-, that which is justly due. Will
l' i..' please look over his letter again ant
-, if your typos have not got it mi
- Does he not say, He thinks the con
It once, of course, to call on me, and
quite a number of the neighbors called.
Well, / had returned their calls, and
hen my daughters-in-iaw hinted that
it was now my duty, according to their
custom, to invite them all to tea. AS |
was afraid might make some blunder,
told them to send the invitations and
set the day, and I'd try to be ready for
them. They did so, and sent me word
one Monday, that on Wednesday some
half dozen gentlemen and their wives
would come and drink tea with me. l
was very glad to have them all come, l
have for tea! l, of course, had never
DcSH "uU w YEA III tIiS N'ob'AJI al"
didn't know whether all English tea,
such as | was used to, would do here.
l hated to ask anybody about it, for
didn't like to be laughed at for my ig-
norance, so resolved to get just such
tea as would have done In Eng land,
and let it go at that.
On the appointed day my company
came, and at tea time invited them to
the dining room. | am afraid there
were few smiles when they saw my
table, but they were very polite. had
large mahogany table, polished very
bright, but l had no table-cloth on, the
plates, etc, being set on the bare table.
/ had nice teal brought \ chest of
Young Hyson with me from England
My table was set with some Old-fashion-
ed china and silver that had been an
heir loom in my husbands family for
many generations. ! had good bread,
sliced very thin, good butter, aud some
good old English cheese, brought from
the old country-and that was all there
was OF the table.
In England l should have thought it
quite NICE, but knew by the faces OF
my guests-though, as l said before,
they were very polite-that had
failed in something. What that some
thing was, soon discoveries; for not
long after that | was invited out to tea
at the house Of one Of my guests on that
former occasion. [ Went-and | assure