The Press., 1891-01-29
kno,r that it was the most northerlY one.


 By consulting the compass she got the cardinal points, but not having studied the chart she could not say in what direc- ton any other land lay. She had seen the sails of two traders that morning, but as they were native crafts she had every wish to avoid them The boats which were sent in pursuit of her must have taken an other course, as she saw nothing of them.
 When Mrs Williams landed on the island she had no idea of stopping there for more than day or two, or until she could decide on some plan. She had scarce ly gone ashore when 8 gale came up which lasted about thirty hours. during which the yawl was so damaged that she must undergo repairs. She unloaded her goods on the shore, covered them from the weather and theh set out to explore the island, pretty we'll satisfied that it was in- habited, and hoping, if it was, that her money might secure assistance. Before night she was satisfied that she was all alone, and she made shelter out of the blankets, and slept the night away as peacefully as if in her cabin on the schoon- CT. Next day she exchanged her apparel for mans suit and began the erection of a hut. In grove about 200 feet from the beach she erected a shelter, 10x2O feet, which withstood the storms of almost four years While the sides consisted of canvas and poles, the roof was matched with long grass which she found on the island in abundance.
 It took the woman about week to con- struct her hut and move her stores into it. and this had scarcely been done when hel boat, owing to carelessness on her part, was carried off by the sea, and she now realized that. she was 8 prisoner until such time as the crew of some trading vessel might land and discover her. After her house was completed she made a more thorough exploration of her island home. There were parrots ard other birds. snakes of harmless variety, Borneo rats, and drove of about 300 Java pigs, which are about the size of the American peccary, but are wild instead of fierce.
 The woman had clothing to last her five or six years, but the provisions she had brought from the schooner would not sup ply her needs more tLan few months. While hoping and expecting to be taken off almost any day she wisely prepared for a long stay. She had fishhooks and lines in her outfit, and with fish from the sea, meat from the woods and bananas and wild fruits from the groves she had a va. riety and plenty. Six months after she landed native craft put in about mile from her hut, but creeping through the woods she saw that all were Malays, and so savage in appearance that she did not dare make herself known. Seven months later second craft sent men ashore to fill two water casks, but she was also afraid of these. She lived very quietly from that time until nearly two years after her land ing, having remarkably good health all the time, but naturally lonely and cast down at times.
 One afternoon, as she was in the forest about half mile from home, having her shotgun with her, a Borneo sailor suddenly confronted her. He was entirely alone, and whether he had been marooned or cast away she never learned. As she was dressed in 8 mans suit he naturally took her for man, but his first movement was hostile one. He advanced upon the wom. an with club in his hand and utterine shouts of menace, and to save her own life she was compelled to shoot him.
 Now and then, all through her stay, trading vessels were sighted in the ofing, and sometimes craft known to be manned by Englishmen, but signals made to the latter by means of smoke were never needed. Her main hope was that the loss of the schooner would in some way reach her friends at Singapore, and that search. ing party might be sent out to her rescue.
 One day, when she, had been on the island four years lacking about fifty days, the British survey ship Sahib, then engaged in resurveying the group. dropped anchor of the mouth of the creek and sent party ashore to explote the interior. I had the honor not onlyto head this party. but to be the first man to see and to speak to Mrs. Williams. We found her in excellent health, although tanned and roughened by exposure to the weather. When she had donned her own proper apparel and had time to tidy up no one could find fault with her appearance.
 After few days we sailed for Singapore, where Mrs. Williams was safely landed, and few weeks later man-of-war was dispatched to the island where the schooner had been seized. Natives were found who gave all the particulars, and the result was that eight men were brought aboard, tried, convicted and swung up at the yardarm, while three more were shot while trying to escape from the island.-New York Sun.