DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 712, 22 July 1878, Page 2

DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

(per press agency.) Auckland, July 20. The schooner Nelly has arrived from the Friendly Islands, bringing Pabl\ Samaba, Louis Oliver, W. Gibson, James Hill, John Morgan, Edward Clevely, and John M'Gowau, tho remaining survivors of the shipwrecked barque Kedar ; and the following crew of the barque Leola, also wrecked : —George Reid, Hugh M'lntosh, W. Carlos, James Pat arson, Edward M'Leod, and J. M'Gowan. The latter gives the following account of his sufferings on Kan ; —I landed on the island on tile ftth of May, with the chief office? and his party, but was suffering from fever, dysentry, and ague, and had to be left behind, and wandered about the island by myself, having nothing to eat but grass, leaves, and shrubs. I could not get water anywhere, and I had to do without it for eight days, One. evening, that of the fourth day of my sojourn on the island; I saw Jamiesun, the second mate, on top of the island. He was on one side of a deep gully, and 1 was on the other, but could not get over to hiin. He called out that lie was tired, and was going to he there all night. I also lay down on the spot where I was, and when 1 awoskonext morning 1 oooeyed to b,i' ( ;i, but found lm response. I did, not, .-;je him again. I have i\u doubt ha is dead. After that •im, [wandered about half naked, with s.-:.!'oely anything to oat, sleey>ing every ;.'. glit in the open air, and became very weak. On the 30th I heard coney ain the distance, and replied to them, at the ■same time gt'JUg in that direction. After some time persons came up, whom [ found to be two Natives in search of Jamieson and myself. They took me in a canoe to the island of Japua, and I lived in one oi the Native houses two days. M'Gowan then describes his subsequent kind, treatment by Mr. Watkins. tniaaionaiy, and King George, of Tonga, to whom tho crew nrcsoqted a te=tinir«nial,