Ten Days Adrift
PRIVATION UPON OPEN RAFT Mission Ketch Wrecked FIERCE HEAT DRIVES NATIVES MAD A STORY of terrible privation during 10 days at sea on an . open raft under a pitiless sun is told by a niissioner who, with one native, was thrown up exhausted on a sandbank following the wreck of a mission ketch. They were the only survivors of a complement of 11 on board.
United P .A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 11.15 a.m. SYDNEY, Today Further details in connection with the Methodist Missionary Society’s auxiliary ketch Bromilow which has been lost at Samari, Papua, with seven members of the native crew, show that when the vessel was wrecked two of the ten natives aboard set out for assistance, but failed to return. Mr. Lassam, the missioner in
charge, and the remaining crew, made a raft and drifted for ten days under a fierce sun without supplies. Three natives became insane and jumped overboard. Two others left on planks in a last effort to reach land. Mr. Lassam and three blacks kept to the raft and were cast up on a sandbank, where two of the natives died. Mr. Lassam and the other survivors were found five days later.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1034, 26 July 1930, Page 9
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Ten Days Adrift
Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1034, 26 July 1930, Page 9
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