SAVED BY OWN BLOOD.
CABIN BOY'S FORTITUDE. A. and N.Z. § LONDON, Jan. 8. A report upon the 'loss of a German vessel named the Salama shows that the sole survivor, a 15-year-old cabin boy, maintained life by gnawing his hand and drinking his own blood. He was unconscious when rescued. He had been lashed to the wreckage, and thus escaped the hurricane which was raging in the Baltic when iht vessel was lost,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17985, 10 January 1922, Page 5
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