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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1783, 7 April 1863, Page 4

A White Man Seventeen Ykvtis with the Bmcks.— News lias leached ni by the Mmiay ot another sensation which Will probably intere«t the cniioni. A man, having nil tho appearance of nu aboriginal, suddenly piesented himself some few days since bcfoie the astonished ga/e of one of Mr. Antill's tiheplieuls, on an out-station on the Bmdekin, who was about jnescnting his gun when he became aware that the intruder wai not a bond fide nigger. The new comet appeared, by the shepherd's account, to experience the greatest difficulty in expi easing himself, having e\ iilently forgotten most of Ids mother tongue, but at last lie managed to convey the following information :— That lie had been cast away in a baiquo called the 'Peruvian,' Captain Pitkestly, ou their voyage to China, somewhere in the Entrance to Tories' Stiaits; that tlieie were on borfid besides the captain and his wife and crew, ft passenger and his wife ; that they reached the main land upon a raft, after which the whole party lived with tho tribe for about si\ years, when they died off, with the exception of himself. Tho vessel was lost in 1846, and mo*t probably as the raft landed them in Upstart Bay, they , woie wiccUed upon Palm Inland. To have reached Upsait Bay from Toi res' Straits would have been almost impossible. Tho tiibe amongst which this man has been located for so long a period have seldom ventured clown so low upon the coast, but having done «o upon this occasion, and the tracts of horses «nd sheep arresting his attention, he determined to follow up this road to liberty, which he finally succeeded in accomplishing. Upon Mr. AntiU'a shepherd giving him a coat and trowsers, ho threw them across his arm like a black fellow. Little could be extracted from him, m he appeared stupid, or rather addled, which will probably in a great measure disappear when in contact with his own race, at memory may assert her prerogative, and the voice of the pnst be exhnmed by that sexton Time fiom its temporary sepulchre of the last , seventeen years. As soon as Captain Perkins, of the f schooner 'Policeman' (though he had discharged hi» cargo and was ready for sea), heaul that the unfortu- ■ nate fellow was on hit way down to Wickhatn, the landing place of the Burdekin, ho determined to wait for tluTputpose of conveying him to Sydney, where. we havo no doubt his presence will produce considerable, speculation.— Northern Aiyu*, Feb. 14,