Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-03-18
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far from the Csoxst Islands, and her
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information gave additional tntefees
and probability 70 the story. The Brit
IN aoyesnmsnt decided 70 take part
also 10 The search. and Der metsssy's
ship Thalis, which vna aboet 20 leave
Enataud foe Australia, wsa ordered 10
20 ous Of her course 70 call a the Gro
.ss Islands.
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transport Mourthe. fetufninG from Ter
ssssch Early this year, reached The Bag
OF Diego Suassx. IA north MADAGASCAR.
on January g. On that day her com
maudsr wrote Q report Of his voyage.
He said that the firss Of the four Gro
Kst Isiands ct which be toocbed vas the
listie island OF Coch0us. He found no
human beings there, bat plenty Of EVIL
dsnos that the island had rscsntiy bceu
oeeupied. Traces Of recent camp afes,
ard btscait boxes and other debris
comparasivsly fresh In appcaraocs
we're scattered around a heap Of
stones had been piled up 10 attract A.
esn1ton, and IN Tits heap was sheet oil
paper on which thna communscstior
had been written In Freash With lead
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.rhs iron ship Trsmasis OF Bssdyaal
with shisteeeu men 10 the crew, vent
ashore 90 the Island OF Oouhons durius
Q heasy eoe. some time after chs %
clear and doAsed of, bot three hour
later che falisd aud sank. The crew es
Gagged In two small boats 10 the island
taking With them one hundred kiIo
esammea Of biscuit. The crew hAvl
lived on Ooshous Island nine months
and their food being Exhausted. the,
are about TO set oct for Possession II
land.
September 30. 1887"
Possession Island, which Ia ons Of ID,
Cresst group. u eighty miles fron
Oochous. Tbs Mo1rths At once vent /,
that islApa. bnt found no tsaos What
ever OF tbs shipwrsoksd men. Then Oh,
weat 10 East Iland. another isisrd Of
The sroap. where she found some Amer
lean y aiors that had been shcse fol
some weeks. They bad neither seer
nor heard anything Of the castawsys
All ths other islands Ia those waters
wers visited without result. IL IL efml,
believed that the afortunate men vsrs
lost IN tbs perilous passage BY small
b3sts 10 Possession Island, though there
10 . bare chance thai they we're picked
np BY some American whaisr.
Of canrsc the 20 poauds Of biscuis
With which the men reached Caohous
Island vas only small Fart Of the pro-
visions they required daring their nine
month"; soiasSn there Al least one
Other erev hes been sbipvsecked on tue
ofoxets. aud II subsistsd until rescued
on peoeuin hesh aud eggs ana fsh. In
This way doubtless tse eleu OF the Ia
nsris eked ont their food resources, aud
u IL not psobabie they waald nav,
starved bad their patienes hsid ent /.
little longer until relief came. The,
probably thonshs that at Possession
Island the chsnoss would be better thai
some ~haier would discover thsm
they kuew there wss not one chaecs 10
macy thousands that the man s'-vas"
bird 20 whom they interested their brief
mssssee would carry 70 safely ard
quickly thousands Of mites 90 tue civil
ixed vosld. they little dreamed thai
eight days before they set out from sne
dcsolate rock where they had lived so
foflornis the bird they sent sAimmiue
over The waters had finished bis wouder.
fai light aud had told IN. world of
tseir unhappy situation. Fev ssoris.
OF the animal tierdam eqaai in y.
she'io Interest that Of tets sirony
vinHed eis3, whose happy fulalmens Of
The mission intrusted 90 him set too
nations at vcrk to rescue men in sore
distress Nee retk ssa.
A Harry cexxussEr.--0ni Justice
Joaes. la ecuvsrsssien With q friend
yesterday, said II have Travelled con
sidsrably daring my life time. ha,
never sac q more teaceaole and agra
realty happy community than thai Of
Wraicons coanty. have been there
number OF umes since arriving in the
Tertiary, and every time secou more
Impressed With this fact. Tho esassy
is tiiIins np ~ith = thrifty class Of set
Tiers. and the trsnlt 10 the tasa OF
Whsscotn - beginning to sfisk 90 iss
ears al I pat GO 50 air af prosperity.
Nhsieosn people acsm g. Be al t.eac<
With themselves and all the world. 1
veal their 90 Monday 60 held a term Of