AN INTERESTING VOYAGE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10218, 12 December 1893, Page 5

AN INTERESTING VOYAGE.

I'Fer xbucb Association.! • GISBORNE, Dec. 11.

Tha barque Samarkand, from Rio de j Janeiro, has arrived here. Captain I Whitson states that the vessel was de-1 tained at Rio for several days in conse- | quence of the iaaurjectiou, end was lying j in the stream two hundred yards from the j shore when the bombardment began, the j rebel fleet frequently taking shelter under his quarter. Showers of bullets came aboard the British vessel, and she bears a few marks of having been in action. On the vayage the Samarkand called at Tristan D’Anunha. The natives boarded' the ship, a«d seated that they were hard up, having had an increase in their popu- f lation in the shape of the shipwrecked crow of an Italian barque, and men who were washed ashore from the barque Allen chaw. i Their crop of potatoes had proved a failure j owing to rate. The captain supplied them j with such food and clothes as he could 1 spare. Tho population of the island numbered fifty-eight, of whom forty-three were males and fifteen females.