CANNIBALISM AT SEA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

CANNIBALISM AT SEA.

The Bombay correspondent of the "Central News" telegraphs: "The •Singapore Free Press' publishes a terrible story of murder and cannibalism at sea revealed by two survivors, named Johas Eusen and Marticornu, of the wrecked ship Angola, of New Brunswick. The Angola, which carried a crew of nineteen, ran on a barren reef six days after leaving Manila, and remained hard and fast. Fear of Btarvation drove the crew to put to sea on two rafts. The food supply gave out, and the men ate their boots, the barnacles from the raft, and any seaweed they could find. Two went mad and jumped into the sea. On the 25th day a French sailor suddenly jumped up and nvurdered the first mate, cleaving his skull with an axe. He then tried to eat the body, but was prevented. He then attacked the captain, but the second mate felled him and killed him on the spot. The survivors remained reticent as to •what happened afterwards, but they admitted eating part of the Frenchman's body. They drifted on for seventeen days more until one man after another went mad and died. The two survivors eventually- drifted to Soubi, a small island between Borneo and the Philippines. They were taken off the raft in a terrible condition, and sent in a junk to Singapore.