The Philipsburg mail., 1899-04-14
DESPE RA TIE WORK.
ADVENTURE OF THREE WAITS
OF THE SEA.
Shipwrecked Sailors Labor 120 Hours.
Night and Day-A Thrilling story
as Told to u London Paper by One
OF the Survivors.


waits from the sea, who have spent
Ave months on the island of Tristan
da Cunha arrived in LONDON on Sat
urday and were seen at the Snip
wrecked Mariners society's home in
Dock street by Daily Mail repre-
sentative last night. The three men
are the steward, Max Smith, and two
sailors Lazarine NaZar and Albert
Socolos, of the Glenhuntley, barGue
bound from New York to Freemantle.
They sailed on March 90, abandoning
their vessel, which had sprung leak,
on June 4, when within few miles
Of Tristan da Cunha The steward,
German, told the story of their ad-
ventures to a Daily Mail representa-
tive, while the two sailors listened
attentively. I'VE had very heavy
weather." he said, "and almost from
the first we had to work the pumps
The last five days we spent on the
Glenhuntley all hands worked at the
pumps night and day. The captain
was at the wheel all the time and we
| had hardly strength to try to launch
| the boats. The sea was running so
high that it was only with the great
| est difficulty we succeeded in launch
ing the lifeboat and the dinghy, but
Captain Shaw, John Allen and John
Cleary, the first and second mates, my
self and the eight men who composed
the crew succeeded in getting afioat
and made for the island which was
only six miles distant. 1t was almost
as difficult to land as 1t was to get
into our boats. The lifeboat was
dashed against the rocks and stove
in, but those in the second boat man
aged to land without accident and
helped the others ashore. We landed
on the east side of the island, when
is uninhabited, the settlement being on
the north side, and as soon as we
tried to gel our provisions and other
things on shore it began to pour with
rain. We could find no cave, but
managed no start a fire in a sheltered
nook, and it was funny sight to see
us trying to dry ourselves one side at
time tefore it. We were soaked
through And had had no sleep for five
days. We tried to reach the settle
ment overland, but had to give it up
the paths were too bad at that season
} After r1any attempts we decided tt
, row around to the inhabited part, a.
| we were getting short of provisions
We could not launch our boat for {
long lime, and when we did the biz
: waves took it out to sea unexpectedly
and, although there were six of us II
, it. there were only two oars. Laza
rinn Nazar put rope around hi
waist and volunteered to swim ashOr
: and fetch two more pairs of oars
, This he did successfully, although
there were sharks about. 1t was
long, hard row to reach the settle
) ment and we only got near it just be
fore sunset, by which time the mel
were all played out with rowing. Tn
people of the island noticed us an
sent their own boats to help us. The
took us off, took us up to the settle
ment, gave us dry clothing, warn
place in which to rest, and, what wa
even more important, something t
eat, AS soon as ever we could W
helped ourselves. We went huntin
and got wild birds and eggs. On on
occasion one of our party was los
two days on the Mountains whil
hunting. Our principal occupation
however, was trying to signal a pass
ing vessel so as to get taken off. w
knew that a British man-of-war woul
r come sooner or later, but We did a
we could to get off sooner Severs
passing boats were signaled and tw
: or three gave us provisions or clothing
0 and on one of them-the America
Charlton, bound for Hongkong-th
y second mate was taken. But most {
them were either bound for places t
which we did not wish to go or the
It said they could not take us. We fir
ally got to Cape Town on the Britis
gunboat Thrush. There six OF on
, party remained, but we three decide
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