The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-01-08

The Ex,rAoriir arg Swim Yr.Al the
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Ouetts.
In the history If li,is country ti,ere
has. perhaps. never b.er known Hn in
stance OF grtat.r coir.:s.. e'sd,atnce,
and PLUCK than .:s:t Shown by E.: lily
Lacy. young XIII :.n.l.x l6 years OF sgs,
at til. time Of tie reck If the Quctta.
AS Miss Lacy s r.i.. al to so.,' eIs.'na
fri. ads OF my own rave ;i-ka.i perrniS-
sion to publ Ii n few more particulars
about her. She nn.. her younger sister,
aged ID. we're coming 10 Eri@ia,ii to
| complet,. their eIucatinr. W en the
crash came Emily i:Ilnediate!y rllshe l
to the cabin to try and res lie her
younger -ister. and the two succeeded
in reaching the deok where. however,
they were at once separated; and they
never met af,erward Miss Lac SAYS
| that as the vessel WIS going down gsn-
| tleman in whose care the girls were said
| to Ter: You look after yourself and l
will take care of May Both this gen
tleman, however, and the little sitter
were drowned.
"When we got aft, she wyi@es, athe
drinking In tive sa. water l thought l
was going to be drowned. But came
up again and was surroun aesi by Cinga-
lese and sheep. felt myself being
pressed down by them. ltwns terri o
Then l saw raft short distance .ut.
and was dragged OH it by the la.rser.
who WAS very kind to me. We were a.
tached to a bigger raft crowded with
| Cingalese. When we got away some
distance, as the Cnguicse i'ecas,ae very
| noisy, we cut our rnft ntrift, and re-
mained on her with the pur.er fos lonS
| time, till we were, as / thought, = miles
from the shore; and. as he told me that
he could not swim. left him and swan
for the shore, but did not reach it, as
it was 80 far away. / weDa On swi,a-
ming toward tie land. and Saw smother
raft, on which were two C.nsalese, to
which / made my way, ai,a got to it:
but, as they were very rude and excited,
and / thought they might be drunk,
left it and took to swimming again. =
When lifted out Of the water she could
not have kept up for another laas hour.
She was quite without clothes, and
burned nearly black with the sun. Be-
fore lifting her out of the water a sailor
threw his racket over her. and then laid
her tenderly I'm the bottom of the boat
For 90 consecutive hours she had been
swimming and floating, sometimes ON
her back. sometimes on her side. She
spoke of the heat as SO intense that she
l had continually to keep her head under
water to escape sunstroke. She says
that she had never any conscious fear OF
death, either from drowning. or from a
, worse or more terrible enemy, sharks,
: but she often felt her powers OF endur-
ance giving way, and it was only the
thought of the agony her death would
have caused her parents which enabled
, the heroic girl to continue her exertions.
q The wreck took place at 8 p. M. on Fri
= day, February a6, and Miss Lacy was
not rescued until 8 O'Clock on Sunday
Z morning. Twelve hours out Of that
!. time she spent with the chief officer,
q Grey, who had got on rafk As be
could not swim, the brave giza swam by
the side of the raft and tried to tow il
+ toward land. Finding, however, tina,
r she was making na progress, she lef
h him, hoping to reach land. which did
not seem far away, and 90 get food and
u water for herself and him. She soon
q however, got into cross currents, and
q when the Albatross rescued her she wa
g drifting out to sea4 Miss Lacy is nov
recovering from the fearful shock sh,
has undergone, and haa before now re
b turned to her home. She expressed ,
IS great dread of going again on the water
ri and it is scarcely likely that the intrepit
= girl viii ever visit England.-tG. I
~ Meade.