The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-21
WRECKED ON A REEF.
From the Fiji Times, January It'll

From the Fiji Times, January IT'LL
We have to record one of the most
miraculous escape from death at sea
in many forms that have ever been
made public. The bark Dashing
Wave, a successful China tea clipper,
is down as missing in the Sydney
Morning Herald. Captain N~andervord
was the master Ofthe vessel, and from
him we learn the following particulars:
He left Foochow OH July 18th, bound
for sydney; and on the night of Au-
gust 3lst, the weather being thick and
SQUALLS coming down at Intervals,
Captain NandervOrd took i'll the mann
top g~allantsail at 10 p. m. n Went
below to lie on the sofa in the cabin;
at half past ten he went OH decK AGAIN,
and was Just in time to see a sinai
island right ahead; he shouted to the
man at the wheel, to put the helm
down, and the vessel had nearly come
round when her keel touched the reef
which surrounds the island. Halt an
hour after taking the bottom the cop
| Der came over the weather-Sldes III
sheets, andthe foremost sunk eighteen
inches; the mainmast was cut away
| but the ship began to break up last.
The island proved to be lsianu,
small and uninhabited,
bv a reef, rendering it impossible to
land if there is any wind blowing al
all, Captain Nandervord says 1t Is
ten miles out of the position given IN
the chart, 10 so ", 161 +. The crew
took to the long boat, and Captain
Vaudervord secured Il chart and maui
teal instruments, but strange to say
no compass was saved; Il case OF COLO
NAL wine. a bag and a half OF bread
and two buckets were put i'll the boat,
but no water; and for thirty-one days
the thirteen men were in the open
boat without seeing land or snip or
receiving any assistance Whatever.
They left the wreck at 10 O'Clock the
morning after. and with sail made l
blankets sewn together and liked 10
an oar began their weary journey in
search of some mhabitedisland. Their
sutferiprs NAV be imagined. For the
first five days they had not a drop OF
water, and the captain served out one
bottle of Cawarra daily between the
thirteen. That saved their lives.
After that time they had rain ana
caught water but. except at the time
it was actually raining, a half pint OF
water each once a day was served ouu.
land a handful of bread. To the credit
7 OF the lltI anu lllClI 49,
was no INSTRUMENTATION, no attempt TO
obtain more than their share of the
scantv provisions and precious water.
Silently but resigned they passed day
after day, the sun pouring down on
their unsheltered heads. Every day
Captain Nandervord got the boats po-
sjtiou bv means of his instruments;
Int. when the weather was dull. o.
+ course thew went in all directions iol
: want of a compass, and especially on
= cloudy nights: it was the master IN
tentiOn to make for the hing-mll
group. but the current was against
G them, and then a course was Steefeo
,, for Ascension Island, and, had any o
the party been able to row they might
have reached it; but, weak as they
o were. all they could do was to Keel
V their boat before the wind with TN,
= blanket sail. After thirty days OF sui
: fering. their mouths parched, tongue
q swollen, wet with grateful showers
scorched by a tropical sun. fully un
dergoing Coleridge's Ancient Mari
ner's' sutferings:
If Water, water everywhere,
And all the boards dlu SHRINK
Water, water everywhere,
Not any drop TO drink.
And every ongue through utter drough
Was withered at the root,
We could not speak no more tina II
We had been hoaked with SCOT.
C They sighted Strong's( Ualan) Island
V the easternmos one of the CaroIln
4 group. Here the castaways saw
canoe outside taking produce o on
| part of the island to another. ana mac
thew been able TO get sonle provisions
Captain NanderVord would have KEEP
on. and tried to make II OF IN
u islands of the Marshall or GIlber
g groups adjacent. The boat refused I
trade with them, and they went lnsId
and were received by the King wit
the utmost hospitality; he TOOK IN
captain and mate to live with nm
, and assigned quarters TO the men II
&c the town. After some days captain
ii Nandervord and part OF the crew tool
the boat and tried to reach kinE>nllll
and were fitted out by the King WIT
q sails, mast and provisions OF ever,
n kind, but met with a gale n had 1
return to StroDg's Island. Aitogethe
thirty-eight days were spent on tn
: island, when the Drill put in, short Q
" provisions, and they came ON IN tina
vessel and arrived on Thursday a
midnight. Captain Nandervord de
lsires to acknowledge the kindness o
lCap;ain Beatson to himself and untor
y tunate crew.
l. CARPET-BAGGERs y SCALAWAGs
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