A TALK OF THE SEA.
Captain Nelson of the British barque AW Cowper, which arrived at this port yr!=ttrJJJ states that on July 3rd, while in lat- •>' }'~l long. 167 35 E. be sighted a vessel S K i parently dismasted and with '• T; He bore down upon her and sent the officer in the second life-boat, who retiu--; with two men and their etieets. He to' • the wreck to be the Japanese jmik ' ...j man of Tatsunva, Saugura, lata bound from Hokailade to okl had left the former port on the 9:h <>i - ber, 1875. The junk had hem after which had drifted lirlples-dv ••ii*' ll master and nine of the crew h:ul ' let four to six mouths ago of scurvy, am , survivors had salted them down '•>' t the stench from which was J* 1 ' 1 " 11 ' had thrown the cargo—salt The two survivors, Katsurva, Ill ' lt |' a 'y e oo: Fitchi, sailor, were in a most dition from scurvy, the lonn. r "■ fectly black and entirely lilli'' 1 '"- V e jj not being so bad, but both vei> ciated, they having had ate * r fc rice, what lish they cau^ht^a'i' 1 . i£T y when it rained, and latterly ing used everything available j-> r San Francisco Callf
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4637, 23 September 1876, Page 2
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