New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-28
STARYATION DIETS.
These U0ke Breakfast Foods Loo,
Like Larary.

The hardest fare that six strong men ard a
boy OK fifteen ever Kept alive on was the dali,
menu OF the WindOvers survivors. WHO were casa
up on the irish coast near EIlsezg Thew lived -a-
sixteen days sJe7yed ropeyarn without a -,.-7f,
OF anything else to help digest IL. EXCEPT water:
and though it made them it, they Bept alive on IT,
ana oid not waste away very much.' SAYS a writer
IN Answers"
THE Windover was a bark CARVING salt batvasr,
Spain and the States. with an English crew and
she was dismasted and abandoned about a thou-
sand miles out on the Atlantic. Three OF the crew
were killed by falling masts. and two others wers
washed overheard; but the seven others took TO th
whalebOat and set cut for Britain Being in too
much Of a hurry. they took too little food but
three large butts or water. besides the tank thu
boat already held The result was .hey ate up
their provisions in four days but had enough
for month, and. after starving two days mora
they tried boiling lengths OF tarred hemp rope into
q pulp and swallowing &c. They had a key OF
parahine wax and. though It made them very III
at first. they eventually cOntriyed I've on the
boiled hemp, the tar. boiled a Jelly adding tn
the nOurishment OF the rope.
Two men who went to a small island or tho
Irish coast little while ago kept themselves going
for ten days diet almost bad They landed
IN boat. which smashed By a wave on their
trying TO relaunch her. and they were left on tho
bare. rocky Island. which has only a slight scalp
OF coarse turf. without food Fortunately Tiers
a spring on tbs .slaRd. but nothing in the way
OF food but gulls. which they could not catch and
nothing make fire with a distress signal
There not any shsllhsh. as there Is no
beach, and the pair had to subsist the ten days
cold. seaweed washed up BY the tids For
two days they starved. but after that they tackled
the seawsed, making three meas day OF It. until
rescued
"A Glet OF boots IL one OF the cCmmOnsst OF Iast
resource foods; and. though II Is hard Tor well fed
person to magins that any one could masticato
and digest shoe leather. pair OF long boots
win keep man alive for fortnight. II be has
little water.
.Of course no teeth can tear cOwhids boOtsi thev
have 10 be cut up and shredded with a knife. and
the shreds chewed and swallowed Boiling. even
when possible, does good At al. but takes rom
the boots what nOurishment they contain. A few
ounces OF leather. being SO hard to digest. stays
the stomach for fifteen twenty hours.
The best known and most useful OF starvation
dfefs for wrecked Castaway people, however, -
mat OF bernacles. aud n anything OF the kind hap
pens 10 YOU they will probably ba your staple food
RarnaclSs are long. tough half shelhsh half vege-
table creatures that grow on the under sides or
vessels Three Euglishmen and a crew Or Lascarss
VINO had been forced to abandon the sallnS vessel
North star a few months ago, kept [nenlse.Ves
Going f0r over a week barndcles, and only Two
- ne crew died The worst Of them IL that they
tive one Internal cramps and cause an lnsusta3Lo
F5f~a+. but they do nOurish the frame.