SAVED BY A PORPOISE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 24

SAVED BY A PORPOISE

The Miami (Florida) correspondent of the “New York Times" states that when the steamer Vela was three mites off the United States coast, on her way to Germany, two young German stowaways, Gustavo Danielzik nnd Wilhelm Kieserling, lumped overboard, taking with them two lifebuoys, a gangway and two oars. The incident having been reported by wireless to the shore stations border patrod officers began to watch along the 25 miles of coast between I ort Lauderdale and Miami. The same afternoon Kieserling was taken to Fort Lauderdale on board a motor-boat, which had found him drifting in the sea supported by a lifebuoy. At night some fishermen passed along Dania beach, a few miles south of Port Lauderdale, saw the nude

figure of a man sprawled in the surf, making feeble efforts to crawl ashore. Ir. was Danielzik. He was more dead than alive, and was taken to a hospital. where in broken English he said: "I could not swim. I tried for hours. The waves kept carrying me farther away. I could not think. I gave up. Then someone push. I do. not care. Again a push and I see. hirst I was seared. 1 think walrus. Then I know porpoise. They do not want to hurt me _j U st push, like I am in the way. How'many of them? Ido not know. Before I get there I know nothing.” Old fishermen along the lower Florida coast sav that the story is entirely plausible. as porpoises will bring in dead bodies in the same manner.