A TALE OF THE SEA.
Olaf Madsen, a sailor, twenty-six yeara of age, belonging to Veile, in Jutland, was bound for the South Sea on board an English ship. In the neighbourhood of Cape Horn the ship was overtaken by a storm, and went down, with eighteen of the crew. Madsen was the only person able to save himself. After he had been clinging to a portion of the wreck-for several hours, he saw hear him another ship which lay on its side disabled, and upon whose deck soine persons were visible. Happily, among the ship's debris was a boat. Clearing a passage for the boat, he made towards the disabled vessel, and saved from an otherwise inevitable death no fewer than sixteen persons— thirteen seamen, the wife of the captain, and two children. Scarcely was his rescue work completed than- this ship went down with five men, among whom was the captain. Brave Madsen was quite exhausted after this heroic strain. News of the occurrence went to England, ,-and when Madsen returned to Hamburg some days ago and was domiciled in the English Seamen's Home there, the British Consul pre- 1 sented to him a large silver medal with the diploma, as well as a good round sum of money in the name of the Queen.*
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5457, 8 January 1896, Page 4
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217A TALE OF THE SEA. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5457, 8 January 1896, Page 4
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