The sun., 1919-04-15
CASTAWAYS BRING
PEACE TO SALVADOR
Wrecked Captains News Of
Wars End Greatest Shock
Since Columbus Landed.
GALE SINKS THE VESSEL
Schooner's Crew Spend Four
Days in Open Boat, Then
Get Fish and Cane Diet.

When skipper Girls Columbus landed
on an islet of the Bahamas on October
II, 1872, he chistened It San Salvador.
Later plain British folks called It Wat
iing's Island and still later tho geo
graphical and historical hishbrows got
together and oficially proclaimed that
II was Capt Chris's San Salvador sure
Is shooting. Skipper Berwyn Bradford
of the little three masted schooner Net
tie Shipman (not so long as the flagship
of the commodore OF the old caraval
discovery squadron) arrived at this port
yesterday aboard the steamship William
b. Palmer and told how he had also
discovered San Salvador, finding It about
as progressive as when It flashed upon
Capt Chriss ken, with the difference
that its present natives are black.
Capt Bradford does not blame Capt.
Chris for passing up the island for some
thing moro worth while. He says he
sure would not have landed there II
he could have helped himself: but he
Just couldn't because OF what happened
Vile for Antilla, Cuba, with $4,000 feet
of yellow pine. A mighty northwester
emote the ship. seas leaped aboard and
tore the declsload of lumber from It's
lashing and planks and 3oists and ecant-
hing and boards, like unloosed friee.
5abbed and pounded and battered end
beat the old hooker until her decks ana
hull were full OF holes and scars. ana the
ships company had TO abandon her IN
INA
lodging and sidestepping and Jumping
and hurdling flying timber.
All hands-six with the skipper
abandoned ship in the yawl, with six
cans Of meat and ono cask OF water.
and made for what the Skipper figured
out was one Of the Bahamas, but didn't
suspect II might be San Salvador. On
February 10 the islet showed UP.
The men had been four days In the
open boat and had got outside OF their
food and water. The black natives,
$500 in all. sighted the boat coming
shoreward and gathered on the beach
with two rifles, some old cutlasses ana
clubs prepared, as the skipper and his
men first supposed to treat 'em rough
They walked in through the SURF with
hands up, as they saw that the rihes
were pointed their way. They were un-
molested after they told who they were.
According to the tale of the schooner
men. the natives did not know that the
war was over, and they suspected that
the castaways were Germans. Be,m
British, they spoke one OF the various
British dialects common in England and
her island possessions and seemed 10
understand the American language al
most as we'll as native English FOLK
The San Salvadorians were hospitaoie'
although their diet was bit monoto-
nous, somewhat, like water and turnips
and turnips and water menu or Col
Mulberry Sellers. The skipper ana MS
mon ate Ash and sugar cane and sugar
cane and fish, washing 1t down with
water, until they felt like man con-
demned to get away with brace OF
quail day.
At the end OF a month a trading YES
sci came along. confirming the news
that the skipper had impaired to the
blacks. that the Germans had been
beaten on sea and land. and taking the
ehipwrecked to Nassau. where, after they
had waited several weeks, eaten every
thing except fish and sugar cane they
boarded the Palmer for home and hu-
man provender.