The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25

iNew Zealand, in 1840, reported that | there were at least one hundred slnoi- lar ships fishing" in the neighborhood. lone of these whaleships in 1894 under Captain Folger happened on the de- scendants of the castaways known for. all time as the Bounty mutinaArs who after sending adrift their com Imander and those who efused to ioin in the mutiny had settled at Pitcairn Island with some male and female na- | tives of Otaheite Captain Folger an- Iparently did not disclose his find. for six years had elapsed before the island was again visited by any one fromr the outside world. Four years ago a Nova. Scotia bark, the Angola, was wrecked ] on a reef six days after leaving Cayite f, in the Philippines. Seventeen suryi- vors remained on the reef until two rafts had been constructed and then attempted to reach the nearest dry land. During the night the smaller raft with five men disappeared and the l twelve men of the large craft were fa- ted to undergo most terrible experi- ence. After ldrifting twenty-five days. destitute of food and water, two men went raving mad and drowned them 1 selves. Next day a French sailor killed the mate with an axe, quenched his thirst with the murdered officer S blood and was later on killed by the second mate. His body was eaten and | cannibalism was resorted to again and again until only Swede and a span- | iard were left to tell the horrible tale whom the raft rifted ashore after for | ty-eight days experience on an island of the South Natuna group, where the natives attended on their every want until strong enough to proceed to Sin gapore in a junk.
 In 1892 the metal bark Compadre caught fire at sea and was run ashore on Auckland Island to save the lives of all on board. There the castaways spent about as monotonous a hundred days as can be imagined, until rescued by a passing ship. Another metal bark, the Henry James, bound from New South Wales to California, piled up on a coral reef near Palmyra Is- land. He crew and passengers sought safety on this inhospitabe place, a boat, with the mate and four men who had volunteered, succeeded in reaching Samoa after a starvation trip covering thirteen hundred miles in nineteen days, and the Mariposa of the Oceanic Steamship company's fleet of San Francisco Cal, went out of her way to rescue the castaways in compliance with the urgent request of the daunt- less volunteer boats crew
 1 Owing to the fact that quite a num- Der of sailing ships have met their fate on the lslets of the lone Southern ocean, between the meridians of the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, the maritime nations have deemed it ne- cessary to establish depots of food and clothing on a few of the most impor-
 tant of tn elsinads along this route. On Hog Island, Croizet group. a French war vessel left a considerable supply of necessaries in a hut erected near the landing place and similar arrangement was made by the British warship Comus on Possession Island
 where she landed provisions enough to
 last fifty people fifty days. Another
 French waship established similar de-
 pots at the islands of Amsterdam, St
 Paul and Kerguelen, Nearer New Zealand there are also depots of a likf