SHIPPING LIST. Entered Inwards.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume VI, Issue 430, 12 August 1851, Page 2

SHIPPING LIST. Entered Inwards.

Aucust 9. — 4Boyd,' 15 tons, John Mackintosh. from Wangaroa. --« ■-"• - -' 11.—'John/ 28 toni, John SulliTan, from Parton.—Combet & Daldj, agenti.

Shipwreck on a Desert Island -- Captain Bernard, commanding the • France et Biesil,' lutcl'y returned from Rio Janeiro, gives the following account of the delivery of four unhappy English ma riners who had been cntt on a. desert island in the mid-t of the ocean, a deliverance effected through the courage of that worthy c»pt»in .— " On the 30lh November," he reports, "we saw Cape Prio. and on the Bth of December Ttinity Island, hating been until then delayed liy culms or opposed by contrary winds. On the 30th the weather was fine, a gentle breeze was blowing from emt-north-enit. I pawed as'dose as I dared to the Isle of Trini y, in order to"ob»erve whether any shipwrecked or lost persons were on that shore. About 10 o'clock we percdved a imoke on the touth east point of the island, ard concluded that there must be tome one there i presently we perceived signals of distress. The first object which caught onr «ight u-as a rag tied to'lbe end of a broken piece of mast, and waived in the air. Preaently we saw two men on the shore, Huving brought to, I approached as near as possible to the coast : I sent out the Jong-boat, having on board four sailors of tried courage. Arrived at the sou h tide of the isle, the mate revolted to effect the embarkation where two rocks afforded an opening ; the boat remaining without the breakers, a sailor named Augustus leaping out of the boat with a long piece of sailcloth foT the purpose of forming a communication with the chore. The poor man was unible to swim ; he was often covered and much beaten by th«waves, but at last he gained the shore, and each man having laid hold of the sailcloth, the unfortunate mm were drawn irto the boat, but not without great difficulty, as they were so weak from hunger and exposure, that they could make no movement in the water. They were Englishmen. As soon as ih-y had somewhat recovered, the mate of the English *e«el made the following statement : — * We kft London September 28, 1850, in the English sbij) ' Liath.' Captain Roberts, for Valparaiso : nothing remarkable occurred on our voyage until we came wi hin view of the hies of Murtin-va*, at four in (he morning of November 20 ; these isles were on the south-west of us. I informed the captain we were near the Trinity Island. He arose and ordered the boat to be put to sea, saying there were pigs and goats to be found there, and directed those who were setting out to take guns for the purpose of thooting some. The carpenter was also to take his axe and cut staves. I, the mate, Macgregor by name, G Challi*, the carpenter, Manguel Howet, a passenger, David Rogersotj and George Shipp, sailors, the latter of whom was drowned, embarked in the boat to go to the island. Immediately we got on shore I set out to >look for animals, but could not find one. I returned to the boat, but the sea had become so rough that it was impossible for us to go out, notwithstanding all onr efforts. We then made a great fire, hoping that they whom we bad left in the ship would see it daring the night, and thu9 be assured that we were not drowned. Unhappily during the night the wind was very violent; itraiwd abundantly, and the sea was high. In the morning I ascended an eminence ; we saw the brig at some distance ; we nude signals by means of a htndker chief fastened to the end of my firelock. P.esemly we saw the vessel bearing away, and at nocn ihe was in full sail to continue her voyage, no one having been sent to the island to sec what had become of us. Towards evening two ships passed the isle : is the sea was now more calm I and 6. Shipp got into ihe boat to put out ; the boit w*s half full of water' before we had cleared the breakers — we attempted to gain one of the ships, but could not. We tamed back for the isle, but the sea was so rough that when the boat reached the shore it was capsized by the waves ; it was then that my companion wa* drowned; it was my good fortune to be saved, aid the boat was thrown on the rocks. I sought my compunions in misfortune, whom I found on the north bank of the isle, engaged in constructing a grotto, in which we remained until the 9th of December, the day when we were saved by the generoti'y of Captain Bernard. The chief nu'rimem during the 20 days we were on this island consisted of snakes, crabs, and aquatic birds.' "—BeU't Mas linger, Feb. 3.