Evening journal., 1907-12-24
MAROONED ON
DESERT ISLAND
Mate Of Norwegian Bark Lived
on Turtle and Led Robin
sou CruSOe Life
WILL ENJOY A
CHRISTMAS DINNER
ny OLE IouRNAL.s speeIal We.

BY THE JOURNALS Special Wire.
SOUTHAMPTON. England. Dec. a.
After crowdine into little more than T.
months as remarkable sories Of advcn-
lures as IL took Robinson Crusoe half
life time 10 experience. Mato Donald
Morrison, Of the long lost Norwegian
BarQue Alexandra Ouhis, Is home to see
n he can eat at one sitting his Christ
mas dinner for 1907 and the one he lost
IN 1906
Alexander sellsirk had no moro re-
marknble story TO tell after his rescue
from the island OF San Juan Fernandez
than Morrison brought with him when
he landed here from the tramp steam
ship on which he worked his way from
Chile.
The Alexandra Ouhis sailed from New
South Wales November %, 1906. he says.
with a crew OF twenty Englishmen.
Americans. Germans, Norwegians and
Danes. We were bound for Panama
For two months everything went we'll
Then we were becalmed For weeks we
drified without a breath Of wind This
lasted three months. Then we sighted
land
"The captain reckoned correctly. as we
afterwards found that Il was the Gala
pagos archipelago SIN there was no
wind. Soon we found we were drifting
again toward mid-ocean.
This meant destruction for our food
and water had run no low we had long
heen on half rations AT tho captains
order we launched our two small boats,
loaded an available food and water into
them and each with a crew OF ten men
set out for the islands.
Made Slow Progress.
MANY of the men were too weak even
TO speak and we made slow progress. our
boat sprung leak and two Of us were
kept hailing constantly For ten days we
fought with changing currents.
FINALLY we ncared an island. It was
small barren and deserted To land
there was useless That night we parted
company from the other boat Before
morning the plug fell from our water
barrel and then It was discovered that
all the water was gone
''For two days we suffered horribly
from thirst At last we spicd n large
! mountainous island and landed. Our boat
was crushed on the beach There was no
water, but the captain stripped the skin
from cactus leaves and the juice refrosh-
cd us
1--WE found we were on Indofatgable
Island. on the beach were several onor-
nous turtles. We killed them. dranl, the
blqed and ate the meat our first fun
meal Ia month. But for The loss OF ouI
boat we would have tried 10 reach
Chatham Island. which is inhabited 4
few days later we found small, hracls.
sch spying qnih cave
cubhed a Sea Lion.
"Our slaughter OF turtles had made IN
survivors shy and soon we had fresl
trouble to find food one day we oiubbe,
sea lion 10 death II was work. W.
found his nose TO be his vulnerable point
AZ last we had TO eat the lizards loath
some creatures i've feet long and FOO
in circumference
Thinking we might find moro gam,
elsewhere we changed our camp by swim.
ming around clln, which with IN,
jungle prevented us travelling overland
1.-THE American member OF the crew re-.
fused 10 accompany u.s. saying we would
surely drown and he preferred 10 die IN
the old camp.
$50 we reluctantly left him hohind IN
the new camp the captain lost his reason
and another was killed.
"Our only luxury was a solitary pipe
which we smoked by turns
I'VE lived thus Tor hve months on the
morning Of October %. we spied sail. u
proved 10 be sioop sent out by the crew
OF our other small boat which had reach
ed main land and we were taken aboard.