JUST TURNIPS.
CREW’S NINE-DAYS’ DIRT
* VOYAGE
MELBOURNE, June 3. : Boiled. turnips for breakfast. Baked turnips for dinner. Stewed' turnips for tea. 1 ,For nine days this was the diet of the crew, of the tnree-ma-sfed schooner’ Coojnonderry, which has arrived from Smithton, Tasmania. The trip of 180 miles occupied eleven days, owing to the Coomonderry having met with unfavorable winds.
The mainmast snapped during a- storm, and supplies ran out two days after leaving Smithton, but after hungering for 24 hours, the crew discovered a consignment of turnips, on which they lived for nine days, till they reached/ Melbourne.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 5
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