FOUND LOCKED IN EACH OTHERS ARMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3813, 4 October 1883, Page 4

FOUND LOCKED IN EACH OTHERS ARMS.

A terrible memorial (says the London Telegraph) of the dreadful loss of the steamship Navarre wan fished up a few days ago by a smack, wlio.se people found in their trawl the bodies of a man and woman tied together, with their eyes bandaged. Probably the mysterious deep never yielded up a secret more shockingly suggestive than those corpses. Whether the man and woman were a married couple, or sweethearts, or brother and sister, we know not; but their bodies fastened together in clcatli tell a moving storj- of devotion, just as their bandaged eyes convey a most pathetic picture of resolution and anguish. In the wreck of the Cimbria it ■will be remembered that the survivors spoke of seeing some of the emigrants at the last moment cutting their throats to shorten the final struggle. Most narratives of disaster at sea contains passages of this kind, telling how those of a shrinking and timid nature ■when all was well stood forth most noble and perfect types of heroes when danger was supreme; how the swaggerer, the bully, the tyrant proved an abject_ cur, casting himself down upon the deck in his terror, alternately praying and shrieking in the agony of his fear ; how some, unable to await the approach of the hist moment, destroyed themselves, while others, with folded arms and contracted brows, stood motionless upon the sinking hull, going to their death like men lost in thought.