SKIM-MILK AND DISEASE

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12105, 2 December 1907, Page 2

SKIM-MILK AND DISEASE

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Jhe cliff was |about three hundred feet high.and at the point just above the mash was a very sharp, steep slope, which allowed us to climb ub with comparative ease. "There were sixteen of us out of the twenty-eight go*, ashore, which left tweive to be accounted for as drowned. They were washed away when the big sea swept the ship. 1 now learned that the iirst man washed ashore, : / Walter Law] called put ft) pass a ropo, bufc before this hoiiid b^ clone ho slipped, over the cliff into the sen, and wag never seen again; We were all very much exhausted when we got ashore, being very hungry and cold. When in tbe top , gallant, the mate told us~ there was a , depot on the island,and when we got ashore we went in .search of it, Tho weather was so thick" thai wp gould 1 not tell whe.rK we" were going, P6 p« turned- back. Later < on we dis- , covered that there was no depot pn that island. This was a great disappointment to the mate, who, along with the second mate, had been seriously ill from exposure. We never .. expected the^second mate to recover, ( but he gradually got better. The mate, however, after findirg he was not on the main Auckland" Island, was disheartened. He sank rapidly, . and died on the twelfth day after the wreck. He was sixty years of ago. By this time we had discovered that . we were on Disappointment Island. After the mate's death we shifted i over to the eastern side of the is- . land. The water where we struck was very bad," so we shifted to ■ the ! other aide the first clay after getting s shore. Wo subsisted upon raw molly , hawks. The few matches amongst { us were wot, and it was three days before we could get them dry. When 5 we once got v ingoing we banked it ; up and kepi it 'alight for seven , months, unfciJ May. We only covered ourselves up with canvas we' got from the ship before she disappeared, 1 but we began to see that we wdrd s going to have' Some told w&theft foi ! , Snow and hail came on; W6 then de- , cided to dig holes? in the' grdund; which ,we did wifrh our hands; Above | the holes we built up sticks, and put } sods on top, forming, huts about Jii feet long and four, feet wide; .We - managed to scraps through the 1 winter all right by living on sea 3 hawks, molly hawks and seals! When " we saw the seals first bobbing up on 1 the "water we thought we had got the ■ sea serpent all right. We did not 3 know how to. kill them at first. We 3 used to whack thorn on the back with r a stick, but one of the fellows hap- > pened to hit one of them on the 1 nose, and it rolled over, so after that we had no difficulty in despatching 1 them. In the beginning we used to i (look everything, by putting it tfn ,tho I names, but .affter wards we made i\ ' mud ovenj and. cooked, our fopcLon a epit'. ;We Knew a depot was on the other island, which was about six miles distant, but we did not know how to get across there. "In July three men built a boat of canvas and sticks. To do this wu had to put in pieces of our clothes and blankets and sew them together, and the task was all the harder as the sailmaker and carpenter were both drowned when the ship went ashore. We sewed by means of a small bone from one of the birds, with a hole bored in it. On the 31st July a start was made in tbe boat for the main Island, wnieh was reachod all right, but as they could not find the depot they came back on the 9th of August. They had six matches with theni, and used four while over there; Then a second boat wa"s btlilt in September; rind on one -tine morning a party started for the main island. The boat was smashed by the sea before it could get away. We bin it A third one jn October, find started again with a party of four, namely Knudson, Walters; Gratton and rilvself. We got over to the large island; but as we reached the shore we struck a rock, and the boat wad smashed, sending us all into iihe water. We scrambled ashore again, but the mishap put out a fire which we had carried in the boijt on a sod; We had carriod the fire in order to save matcnes, of which we had only. two. These got wot, and even after drying them for three days we could not get a light from them. Ou the, fourth morning after landing we started in search of the depot, and after walking across the island and about litfeen miles through bush and scrub, we struck right on it. There was a boat at the depot, but no sails, so we cut up our clothes to make a sail so that we could re* turn to Disappointment Island for tho rest of the crew. On the next' day we tried to sail round for theiri» but the weather was top bad, and wo had some difficulty, in returning to the depot; On the following dfty we made another start and got there about three o'clock. We had fountl clothes at the depots and exchanged tbem for what we we wearing, and wo had also cut each other's hair and beards, which during the sevett months we were on the other island had grown so long that we looked like a lot of spring poets. As we got near our old camp our mates did not know us in our new toggery, and they thought we were sealers. The next morning we pdt half the men ashore Where we first landed with the canvas boat), and left them to make their way over to the depot. Then we took the second officer and the others round to the depot. We saw froiil a piece of paper in tbe depot that the Tutanekai had been there on the Ist February, and that some other Government boat would call in about sis months, so we were on the look out for a boat every day after we got to tne depot, You c»h. imagine our delight when the Hine* moa put in an appearance on Satur* day —morning, the 16th ; eight months after the day of our shipwreck. When we got to the depot we found only ships' biscuits and tinned meat; no tea, butter,sugar or coffee. We found the door of the depot open, and it was evident that stirne of the stores bad been purloined. We found an old pattern gun in the hut, and after a bit got it to work. We used the roots of a plant for vegetables, and it was not bad when boiled. We also made coffee from sea biscuits by roasting them. We afterwards found a little tea at the Enderby Island depot." Mr Crosbie Smith states '" tnafc Charles Eyre, who gave the above statement, acted as cook for the Campbell Island section of the expedition. Mr Smith says he is an intelligent young fellow, 21 years of age, having just completed his term of apprenticeship. The expedition put into Disappointment Island on the return journey. There was an unpleasant task to perform on this visit, tbe removal of the remains of the mate of the Dundonald, who hnd died there of exposure nearly eight months before, to the little cemetery at Port Ross. Disappointment Island is from point to point about Id miles long by one mile wide. While the members of the expedition wero examining and photographing the huts, and examining the island for plants and rocks, a party of four of the castaways had gone over the hill to their first camp to perform the sad work of exhuming the remains of tbe mate of their ship. Tnia tooic a couple of hours. While this wns being done the captain spent ttm time in searching more of the shore line for traces of the castaways. ;A bout 00 two boats put oil' from the Hinemoa, containing all tho passengers and the ship's company, who landed to attend the funeral. The party numbered about sixty. The service was a most impressive one. The captain read the Anglican Church funeral service, and the body, which bad been enclosed in a seacheat, waa lowered to its last resting place by the second and third mates of the Dundonald.

Puhoiic, Herrinian Fuoifelt, Chas. fjyre (A.B.'s): Robt. Ellis (Adelaide). Jack Stewart (Waikato),'Jno. Trotton, Michrtpl Pul, Arthiir Iviney (ordinary seamen), Jabez Roberts (cab : in boy).