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. : This 'picture . shows;, tho hay in- which three, boats and:one raft drifted ashore.It was into .this bay. .also that the: greater number of the bodies drifted. '; Beneath , the ngures'in thu photograph aro'some caves, in . one of which the survivors who escaped on the raft took shelter after landing. . Bo'sido tliefigure '2: is the raft on which they ; landed; while the outlines of the ;thr<» boats'can be seen' beneath the: figures .3,4, and .5, At tlie : spot where ths:' raft- lias,' the tide at high water. washes right up to the foot-of high, steep, rocky . cliffs. The .point where' rocks jiit ou't just past the raft: is impassible at l' : gh water. ' Whore, the-boats lie the beach is'wider,: especially", neiir. boat No. 5/ and the cliffs arbvless precipitous:. About twenty minutes walk past, the last.'-boat''is-' Mr. ; M'Menamen's homestead. The distance betwecen the raft'and . boat No. 5 is, on a rough estimate, from half to threequarters of a mile. .''

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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 435, 18 February 1909, Page 6

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. : This 'picture . shows;, tho hay in- which three, boats and:one raft drifted ashore.- It was into .this bay. .also that the: greater number of the bodies drifted. '; Beneath , the ngures'in thu photograph aro'some caves, in . one of which the survivors who escaped on the raft took shelter after landing. . Bo'sido tliefigure '2: is the raft on which they ; landed; while the outlines of the ;thr<» boats'can be seen' beneath the: figures .3,4, and .5, At tlie: spot where ths:' raft- lias,' the tide at high water. washes right up to the foot-of high, steep, rocky . cliffs. The .point where' rocks jiit ou't just past the raft: is impassible at l':gh water. ' Whore, the-boats lie the beach is'wider,: especially", neiir. boat No. 5/ and the cliffs arbvless precipitous:. About twenty minutes walk past, the last.'-boat''is-' Mr.; M'Menamen's homestead. The distance betwecen the raft'and . boat No. 5 is, on a rough estimate, from half to threequarters of a mile. .'' Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 435, 18 February 1909, Page 6

. : This 'picture . shows;, tho hay in- which three, boats and:one raft drifted ashore.- It was into .this bay. .also that the: greater number of the bodies drifted. '; Beneath , the ngures'in thu photograph aro'some caves, in . one of which the survivors who escaped on the raft took shelter after landing. . Bo'sido tliefigure '2: is the raft on which they ; landed; while the outlines of the ;thr<» boats'can be seen' beneath the: figures .3,4, and .5, At tlie: spot where ths:' raft- lias,' the tide at high water. washes right up to the foot-of high, steep, rocky . cliffs. The .point where' rocks jiit ou't just past the raft: is impassible at l':gh water. ' Whore, the-boats lie the beach is'wider,: especially", neiir. boat No. 5/ and the cliffs arbvless precipitous:. About twenty minutes walk past, the last.'-boat''is-' Mr.; M'Menamen's homestead. The distance betwecen the raft'and . boat No. 5 is, on a rough estimate, from half to threequarters of a mile. .'' Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 435, 18 February 1909, Page 6

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