The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-21
PERPETUAL LEAP YEAR THERE.
A Shipwrecked sailor washed
Ashore and Married Before He Was

Shipwreeked sailor washed
Ashore and Married Before He Was
Dry.
From the San Francisco Examiner
Victoria, B. c, Feb. 26-News from the
group of Tristan d'Acunha, the three
little islands midway between the Cape OF
Good Hope and the coast Of South Amer
lea, arrives here by the steamer Miowera
Of the Canadian Australian line. To the
Miowera it was given by the captain Of
the snip hartford, spoken by the Mo
vera in Australian waters while on the
nOrthWard cruise.
The captain Of the hartford. in report
ing the events OF the voyage from Lon
don, announced that in about latitude
81 degrees minutes south, and longitude
Il degrees and l6 minutes west his Vessei
was hailed by a small boat. The yards
of the hartford were backed and the boat
came alongside In il were several men
and quantity OF potatoes, eggs, milk
and penguin skins. The men offered the
fresh produce and the skins in trade, say
ing they wanted clothing, tea, rice, sugar,
and flour from the ships stores in eS-
change for the articles they brought from
their island home. They told the captain
that they depend on passing vessels for
the provisions they named and for cloth
ing, and that the inhabitants of the ISL
ands were in dire distress, because for
six months not boat had succeeded in
hailing a ship.
The captain of the hartford lowered
into the boat some flour and rice and tea
ana other groceries, and also some can
ned goods. Then the men begged for
clothing for women. and particularly for
eorsets, hairpins, and ribbons. AS the
hartford carried no such articles among
her stores the ladies of Tristan d'Acun-
ma must go corsetless and permit their
halr 70 noat in the breeze, not confined
The population of the island of Tristan
q1Aclnha, as reported to the captain of the
IA tIor1 Dy the men IN the boat, is sixty
the women outnumbering the men in the
proportion of three TO one. Therefore
there are forty-five women and fifteen
men-that means thirty minated women
The group consists of three tiny volcanic
isles, Tristan, the largest, being seven
miles in diameter in the center being a
mountain 1000 feet high; inaccessible,
aDout TWO miles across and Nightingale
Island, baby iset, just big enough to
hold two hills. The islands have been un-
der the British flag since 1916, though as
me men IN the boat told the master of the
hartford, no European government has
pald any attention to them in the memory
OF any or the inhabitants. When Ma
poleon was at st. Helena, 800 miles dis
tant, British garrison was stationed on
tristan. but was withdrawn after the
death OF the exile. Corporal William
Glass, his wife and family, and two private
soldiers We're permitted to remain on the
island when the garrison was withdrawn
Inc population had increased to sixty peo-
pie. some of the accessions being due to
Shipwreck and some to desertion from
whaling vessels
The captain of the hartford reported to
the Mlowera no explanation of the extra
ordinary majority of women. but as his
parting bit of information he related that
the men who sought the corsets, the rib
pons and the hadrpins told him that the
latest addition to the population of the
island was the second mate of the wreck
ed vessel Allen Shaw, who was washed
upon the rocky shore. He was seized by
the women and married before he was
dry.