TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.
Colombo files roporc that the steamer Northumbia landed tho captain and ton men from tho Danish barque Tercora, which was wrecked in tho Mozambique Channel during a heavy galo on February 9. The Tercora was bound for Zanzibar with a cargo of Cardiff coal. Tho captain, mate, and fourteen men reached a small barren island in a destitute condition. The rest (number unstated) were drowned. Tho mate and four men, who subsequently started for Madagascar in a boat, have not been hoard of. Those on the island subsisted for twenty-four days on shell-fish. They were almost naked, and suffered severely from intense heat and shortness of food.
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Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 5
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