The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-28

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and, although he could not speak {
word Of English he soon satisfied hi:
rescuers that he was indeed a Whit
man; beyond this, nothing more coulC
| be ascertained at the time. He wa
| able, however, to indicate that he wa!
not unwilling to go on board of the
schooner; and the officer, after promis
ing the blacks compensation for taking
the man away, bade him step into the
boat. He Obeyed, though without
alacrity, and as the boat pushed OFF
from the beach he seemed half inclined
to spring overheard and rejoin the nat
ives. Some strange, i1lcoherent words
in French escaped from his lips, and his
wild affrighted eyes, as he glanced
from one to the other of the boats
crew, showed that he was under strong
excitement, mingled with fear. AS
soon as he stood on the schooner's deck,
| however, his alarm seemed to Subside,
and he tried to express his satisfaction
at again being among white men by
gestures and other signs of approval.
The pearling schooner set sail for
Somerset, on Cape York, which in those
days was the headquarters of the Tor
res Straits pearling fleet AS the little
| vessel made her way northward along
| the coast. the strange white man be-
gan to speak and eat his food like a
Christian, and lost his terror and
amazement at his surroundings. A
| fortnight later he was able to tell his
strange story.
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| of a shoemaker of st. GILES, near Bor-
deaux. His father had numerous
| family to support and so when al thir-
| teen years of age Narcisse shipped as a
cabin boy in the ship st. Paul, of Bor-
| deaux, his parents were we'll satisfied.
| The st. Paul was bound to Climatic
what port or ports of that country
Narcisse could not remember. But
| though his memory of many places and
events before he became castaWay
was dimmed and blurred, and he spoke
haltingly, as a child who is first learn
ing to lisp it's words speaks, he yet re-
membered the salient points of the voy-
age. The st. Paul arrived al a Chinese
port, and was then chartered by Chinese
merchants to take three hundred and
fifty Chinese emigrants to Sydney.
One moonless night, as the vessel was
slipping through the water before a
strong breeze, she ran into a white line
of roaring surf-the barrier reef of Ros-
sci Island-and struck with a heavy
crash upon the jagged coral. The
boats were in good order, and, although
the ship began to break up under the
force Of the crashing rollers, the great
er part of the crew and many of the
Chinese succeeded in reaching the land
in them; the remainder, as the tide be-
gan to fall and the reef became exposed
walked ashore. They found that the
island was populated by savages, who
showed disposition to attack and
slaughter every one who landed, but
We're prevented by the display of fire
arms made by the captain and officers.
After the unfortunate people had reach
ed the shore the Europeans began in
stantly to devise means of escape from
the island for it was only too evident
that the Chinese would be of no use in
repelling an attack of the savages, and
indeed the (the Chinese) We're equally
to be dreaded for they were in every
respect as treacherous as the cannibal
natives of Rossel Island
But" said Sydeny paper of that
year. lone of the three boats was dam
aged on the rocks, and the remaining
two being inadequate for the convey
ance of all hands to any other land, it
became evident that the crew, if they
wished to save themselves, must leave
the Chinese. Accordingly the Europe
ans made for a neighboring island,
where, however they We're attacked by
natives and forced to retire, leaving be-
hind them three men-the second officer,
a sailor and an apprentice. During this
attack young Pellatier received a vio-
lent blow on the head from stone
thrown from sling, but managed to
reach the boat
Much as the crew dreaded the Chi
nese, they dreaded the savages more
and accordingly returned to the island
which at first had afforded them re-
fuge. Once more in comparative safe
ty their fears returned, and they de-
cided to embark in silence at dead of
night That night the captain, seven
seamen and the boy Narcisse succeed
ed in getting away unobserved by the
Cinnamon in the best boat. Three or
four days before they sighted the Aus
tralian coast their supply of water ran
out"
The place where they landed is |
known as the First Red Rocky Point, |
south of Cape Direction, as CHASTITY a !
Godforsaken and savage spot as can be |
imagined. Raging with thirst. the |