ADRIFT AT SEA
TWO NATIVES IN A BOAT A story of the sufferings of two natives who were carried out to mid-ocean was brought to Sydney by the missionary steamer Joint Williams, which arrived last week from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The two bovs fell asleep in a boat in Tarawa Harbour which they supposed to have been securely moored. When they awoke they were out of reach of land. In the boat they found a small quantity of copra, which they had been engaged in loading on to a steamer, and this, with some' rain water, was their ' only* means of subsistence. This rough food at length gave out, and one of the castaways lost his reason, and subsequently died. With a large knife he attacked' his companion prior to this, who had difficulty in protecting himself. Many days later the survivor was picked up by a Japanese steamer bound for the Marshall Group.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 2
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156ADRIFT AT SEA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 2
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