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...thankful to be alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty-two set out in the 22-ft. boat; eight went with Captain Tobias in his even smaller gig. Overcrowded from the start there was scant room for the severely rationed water and food. To the south lay cannibals of the Marshall group...
Before they were out of sight of Wake Island, rolling seas separated the two boats, and neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
Souls at Sea (Paramount). On the foggy night in 1841 when the packet William Brown, Liverpool for Boston, disastrously rammed an iceberg off Newfoundland, a seaman named Alexander William Holmes made maritime history. Seaman Holmes, seeing that 32 survivors were too many for his longboat, constituted himself, a sailor and a Negro cook as a jury to decide who should be pitched overboard. Holmes and friends had jettisoned seven men and women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months...
...follows: Sultan of Turkey, R. M. Middlemass '09 Sultana, R. MacVeagh '10 Conspirators: Abdalla, L. Hill '10 Abdulla, W. K. Earle '10 Diana, debutante daughter of Sultan, R. H. Hutchinson '10 Alexander, Crown Prince of Turkey, R. C. Foster '10 Grand Vizier, G. K. Munroe '10 Imperial Messengers: Longboat, H. M. Platt '10 Shrubb, B. Tuckerman '11 Durando, F. H. Burrage '10 Hayes, G. C. Prince '10 Mutt, G. P. Gardner, Jr., '10 Little Jeff, J. R. Mayer '10 Ushers: 1. H. Jaques '11 2. S. W. Marvin '10 3. R. Whitney '11 4. J. G. Blaine '11 Lydia, Maid...