WRECKED ON EASTER ISLAND.
British Sailors , Complaint. (Received 10.16 a-m.) $_ BRISBANE, this day. The steamer Maraeba brought two British sailors, named Brown and Green, ■ from Tahiti. They formed a portion of the crew of the Chilian schooner Sarita, ■wrecked on Easter Island on November. 6. The rest of the crew were Chilians, and all were saved. The men complain that they were placed at the end of the island away from the other inhabitants, and almost starved. They had to eke cut an existence thus until the arrival of the cruiser Cambrian, about the end of July. The warship took them to Tahiti. The rest of the crew, with the exception of the captain and mate, who remain, left the island previously.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 196, 17 August 1906, Page 5
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