A ROUGH RUN HOME.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 764, 4 October 1893, Page 1

A ROUGH RUN HOME.

• THE HIGHLAND FOREST A TiMARU resident has received a letter from Thomas Fuller, one of the crew of theflighland Forest (Coptain Dermody) which left Timaru for London in April last, in which the writer says they bad a dreadful passage from New Zealand to Cape Horn, He says:—"We got there just about the worst time of the year. On' tha third of May we said good»byto this world, -Our Captain can tbe ship before the wind rather too long, until such a heavy sea was runn« ing that it was almost as dangerous to heave the ship to, the sea was so heavy. Wβ, had to do something, as we were just funnmg -under, so we hove to. In doing 30 the ship took in a heavy sea over;b,er port quarter, that washed away the'capstan, half the wheel and the wheel.boxj and the man at the .wheel. 'Ihsy did not go overboard. (Exer was at me wheel, and wae hurt somehow in. side,;. We could not find put what was the matter with him, but he wasted *away.to skin and bone, and he was sent to Greenwich Hospital as soon as we arrived.) The ship then turned 'clean over on her beams ends, tlr?foreyard being well in the water. It was then we thought our time had come. We used the best part of our oil to save the snip, and with the help of our Great Master above we pulled through quite safe, and were soon as happy as ever, We/had plenty of work afterwards to clear away the wreckage, and replace running gear and dales, , At our first service after the storm all hands joined in hearty thanks to Qodfor saving us from such an awful death. We afterwards fell in with a lot of ice which we had some difficulty in getting clear of. Then we ran short of provisions before we got Home, so that we had some pretty hard times, being put on short allowance. We all j limped for joy at the sight of Old England,' Lands Knd being the first land we made, and three days later we picked up a tow boat at the Isle of Wight for London. When we reached London (on July 26th) we made for the, cocoa rooms direct, and pretty well cleared out the shop, «we were so hungry,"