LOST BARQUE'S CREW

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 October 1921, Page 5

LOST BARQUE'S CREW

TRYING EXPERIENCES

I (BY Tl-LEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION WELLINGTON, Oct. 16. The Marama. which arrived at Wei-! ' lington .to-day from 'Frisco, landed at! 'Frisco on September 20 twenty-three j members of the crew of the Italian I barque Monte Biaiiea, from Newcastle to Italy, which was burned at sea and abandoned on June 23 in latitude 30 south 106 east, 400 miles from land. I The crew manned one large lifeboat at nighttime, and rowed for seven days, I eventually reaching Tubai Island, in the Society Group. When rowing the boat they were attacked by sharks , but the men battled for three hours, cutting and slashing the sharks with knives for their lives. ■I On Tubai, a remote island, they existed for 54 days on berries, wild game, and fish, while they drank the. juice of native trees. They sighted a » steamer and attracted her by fires, and j the steamer conveyed the crew to