TRAGIC DISCOVERY
PARIS, August 15.
The Petit Parisien’s St. Petersburg correspondent advises that the expedition to Nova Zembla discovered the diary of the last survivor of the fishing colony there.
One hundred persons were established in 1909. The colony, however, was neglected, supplies were cut off for 10 months, and all the colonists perished of disease and starvation.
The dead lay around their hare huts, several of them clasping their children. Diaries have for their lust entry the information ; “We ate our companions’ clothing and corpses, and we wrote these pages until our fingers and eyes failed.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 23
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97TRAGIC DISCOVERY Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 23
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