ADRIFT AT SEA.
CREW ABANDON CUTTER. A CLOSE CALL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, March 27. News has arrived from Levuka of a very close call by two white men, Messrs. James Russcl and Game. They left Wainunu in a cutter last Monday week for Levuka, which lies not so very far away, but capricious currents and calms carried them adrift, and by Wednesday they were suffering badly from lack of water. While some "20 miles from land they decided to risk it in the dinghy, although their strength, was going rapidly. With their two native boys to help they struggled on for 30 hours, taking it in brief turn to relieve the other. They struggled into Nauouo, to the north of Levuka, and landing near a creek flung thcmselvee into the water in an eestaey of eagerness. The drink gave them strength to reach the mission of Cawaci, where they received r bowl of kava. With fruit and kava they managed to reach Levuka, very satisfied that if they had remained in the vessel much longer without wind or help their lot would have been a very perilous one.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 30 March 1925, Page 7
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