Rider Haggard's Shipwreck.
Mb RiDEft T%AQGARp'S Irish' shipwreck rdwly nlfs^eiioeihg a. very experience. Tlfe folloTr&g pjirticib.lars of the catastroph^ were relafced'fey one qf the sufferers"i^-'Mr EL|gg^r'd' ahd'.his ' cbmpanibnsT-Mr' .Ross; i Oeneral'Bea^n Edwarcli, P;B., tKeWagtey ' bTfche (^uofn'HbtfncfsjHisbTQtlier',' the 'MaSt'ef iof rt'Ke ff"Soutli'Beyoin Hburidi, r atid fiwo"ser; I jVaK|ff/left Jteyk|ayick'op Friday fpr" Leith,' [ days? 'How^Terj' It battle bn; to ;b.^ow, and as : iterelWerS ' neatly' 'five huridye^vponi.es on hoard: tine; hatches lfad'tobe £ept'opes i 'and rtney had, 1 thpir way carefully. 1 Grf Wednesday tne'y got to'the'entrarice! of Pentiand^yirth; t ;'"" The, sea ha.3 gone down, but a defise lffog dame on., Being, short bf fodder- for thei'ponies, Jhe skipper risked th'e'"pasp^e,. :.V On Wedn^sd^y, Mtey'b^esikfastjthewHoif party were bri de.cV sinqkihg theif pipeaf When1 the. lengipe-bell 'ifan"g: ari alarmi " Tbe'ihstarit 9fter r thefffbe lifted slightly, and showed, thai"right:ahead,,and pmy a few-yards distant, .were .the frowning cliffs of the Island of Stroma. . A sec^bM of two a|ter this the ship' wagi: jammed as far'as her mainmast'on a k'-'&te of "rb'ck'i 'the sS^ij' s£ill ■swmgihg in- forty 'fethbms/;bf Vf^t'er.': As t^e tide went diown she broke her ba;Sk.; Four days out qf *flve the sea runs high' op this boast. Fortunately it was a deiSd: calm,'' so the passengers with their prew. and kit) were got ashore in" boats. They^^ fojiridibomfortable 'quarter,B'iri/the'nra 66-' John 6' Grdltrs arid drove into WickV '
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 230, 29 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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224Rider Haggard's Shipwreck. Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 230, 29 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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