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HONGKONG," SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1920.

NINE DAYS IN OPEN BOATS.

5 SURVIVORS. OUT OF 18 MEN.

WHERE THE ASPHALT COMES FROM.

sea continually breaking on board, and all hands continually baling. On the 6th July the same weather conditions continued throughout the day. About midnight the wind shifted in a squall,

The famous pitch läke of Trinidad, which caused the boat to capsize. We succeeded in dinging to the boat for which supplies as with most of our STORM, FAMINE, AND THIRST-about half-an-hour, and then righted asphalt, is illustrated and described in The Scientific American Supplement her. We found we had lost one man,(New York). Long ago, says. A special meeting of the Liverpool nearly all the boot's equipment, and the writer, when Nature was stocking Local Marine Board was held last nearly all our provisions. On the 7th her storehouse with gifts for man, imansh, under the chairmanship of July, about 8 a.m., we rigged out ther she must have recognized modern Colonel Wainwright, for the purpose sea-anchor, which carried away al-peeds for smooth and dustless high- of presenting a silver cup awarded by most as soort as it was put out. Weways. For in the crater of an extinct the King of Norway to Captain Geo. tried to rig up the sails so as to keep volcano she set up her chemical Charles Oxley master of the British the boar heading the ses as much as laboratory for producing an inexhau steamer Polish Monarch, in repossible. Bangs heading N.W..stible supply of asphalt, the perfect

We had road material. He continues: cognition of his services to the sur-with gale from the SW,

E.

vivors of the crew of the Norwegian great difficulty in keeping the boat "Nature is not always kind to barque Sardhana," which foundered from being swamped. During the man; many of her treasures are in the South Atlantic Ocean on July 5. forenoon the cook went insane, and bidder deep down in the earth, or at 1919. The story of Nils Ellitsen, the he died during the night. On the the bottom of the sea. For copper, mate of the Sardhana," which was 8th July the gale continued from the tin, and gold man must climb high read at the meeting by Commander S.W. We buried the cook at day-mountains and drill and blast through F. M. Sergeant, R.D., R.N.R., is one light. On the 9th July the gale con-miles of rock; not so with asphalt, of the most striking narratives of the tinued from the S.W, and we had however, for here Nature seemed to es which has been made public for great difficulty in keeping the boat have been in a pleasant mood.. 'Let's years. Among those present were afloat, all hands continually baling make it handy,' she seemed to say, Mr. J. Vogt (Norwegian Consul at On the 10th July, at about 6 a.m., and handy it is. Near the sea it lies, Liverpool). Capain J. C. Black, the boat again capsized. It.rook half and right on the surface so that no M.IN.A. Imarine superintendent), an hour to right the boat, and we lost mining is necessary-in a form so pure that it requires almost no re- and Captain Wm. Dalziel, of Messrs. a lot more of our provisions, and cur Raeburn and Veret, the Monarch Line, supply of fresh water was spoiled. fining and is a constantly renewed. of Glasgow, the owners of the "Polish Bad weather continued throughout the supply. What other mineral can you Monarch, Captain J. H. Goodwin day and night: On the 11th July bad name which, when a wagon load is (president) and Mr. Thos. Scott (secre-weather continued throughout the day taken away, accommodatingly fills up tary) of the Mercantile Marine Service and night. On the 12th July, at about the hole by itself, that there is just Association, of which body Captain 8 a.m., the bost again capsized, and as much there as before? Sounds like a story of mythology, yet asphalt Oxley is a member, and Commander we lose the carpenter and one man does just that. The largest and best- F. M. Sergeant. R.D., R.N.R. (secre- We lay on the bottom of the boat an known asphalt deposit in the world is tary of the Local Marine Board). hour and a hall before we got her found on the eastern side of the Colonel Wainwright said the sea had righted. We found that we had lost island of Trinidad, just a few miles always been a great school for cul- everything our of the boat with the off the coast of Veneruela, South tivating self-sacrifice, endurance and exception of the sail, and the water-America. This great deposit has been Comradeship. which called for a man breaker, which was empty.

worked for years at the rate of to lay down his life for his fellow man.

200,000 tons a year, yet there is no Sailors had always been remarkable

hole to be seen, not even a depression for the endurance and resource which

in the bed, and apparently, there is enabled them to combat and overcome

just as much there now as there was diculties.

at the very beginning.

Commander Sergeant, then read the following story of the loss of the Sardham" and the terrible suffer ing of the survivors before their rescute by the Polish Monarch, as gren by Mr. Nils. Eliisan, who was the mate of the "Sardhana :---

STEWARD BECAME INSANE.. On the 13th July the steward,drank salt water and went insano. On the 14th July the weather moderated. We

felt the want of load and water The steward died during the night. On the 15th July, at 6.m., we buried the steward. We all felt the want of food and water very badly, and decided that if we did not get something soon we should have to resort to cannibal-

ism.

It is

"The "Fitch Lake, as it is called, occupies what seems to be the crater of an extinct mud volcano. about a mile from the seashore, and has an elevation of 135 feet above the sea. The lake' of deposit covers

At about 9.m, we had a heavy an area of about one hundred acres, and is of an unknown depth. Borings STORY OF THE DISASTER. rain shower. We took off our oil-skin of a hundred fret have been made. *On June 22, 1918, the barque coats and caught sufficient to get a The surface is hard, excepting a few Sarithang," of Porsgrund, Jeft good drink. We also managed to soft spots near the middle - it resem Buenos Ayres Roads with a cargo of pur some our water breaker.bles brownish-black earth of stone. 1,790 tons of linseed, in bags, bound We felt somewhat revived: aher In places it is a bit soft underfoot so for New York. On the 27th June we this. We sighted your steaner that the shoes leave impressions in passed into Monte Video, and, the about 15 minutes before she got the surface just as they do on an wind being favourable, we proceeded up to us. We were not keeping a asphalt pavement of a hot day, on the voyage.. All went well. very good lookout, as we were feel-

There are a few soft spots where Moderate to fresh northerly windsing very despondent, for only an hour the mass oozes and bubbles up in a were experienced. On the 2nd July, before we had seen the smoke of a semi-liquid state. There is no vege at 4 p.m., the barometer had fallen to steamer which was too far away to tation over the deposit, and standing 29.50. Sai was shortened to lower see us. We felt that we should never at the edge one notes that it is per- topsails. fore topmast staysail and be picked up, When we got abreast ceptibly higher in the middle than at storm spanker. At about 4.30 p.m.your steamer and nobody had seen us, the sides.

The deposit is owned by the a squall of hurricane force struck the we abandoned all hope. However, vessel on the port side, causing her you had nor go very far away when Government of Trinidad, and is to heel to starboard, so that the vessel we saw the fag hoisted. We knew leased to an American company to lay with her starboard rail under that we had been seen and should be work. The income to the island from this curious deposit is said to water, The barque would not come picked up.

million annually. mast rigging was cut and the masts As Norwegian Consul in Liverpool,

A refinery is located, pear the went by the board.

several narrow-guage All the crew very much pleasure in attending those edge, and went down the bold to shift targo, with functions, and be able to meet those tracks run out across the lake. The the exception of three men who were brave, courageous British shipmasters cross-ties of these tracks must kept on deck to manoeuvre the ship who had from time to time rescued be renewed every few weeks, and attend to other duties. Ship at his countrymen. He was very proud for they gradually sink down and dis time was unmanageable. The crew at being able to be present on behall appear in the asphalt and if new ones continued working down the hold of his Majesty the King of Norway and are not constantly supplied the track all night shitting cargo, with no ap- the Norwegian Government to thank itself would soon go out of sight, parent result.

On the 3rd July, at Captain Oxley for his splendid ser- Negro workmen dig up the crude 3 a.m.. we cut the foreropmast rigging vices, and to congratulate him on the asphalt with picks in the spots where and let the foretopmas: go by the King's gift to him. The King of Nor-It is hard the soft spots are left board Ship would not right bersell, way was a sailor and the Prime Minis- alone, It does not come up easily, so we tried to rig out a sea-anchor ter was & shipowner, and they under- but is rather tough, bends but does from the starboard quarter by paying stood and fully appreciated Captain not break easily. The mass below out a long hawser.

the surface is full of holes and re- done, sail was set forward: This had CAPTAIN OXLEY AND THE SURVIVORS. minds one of Swiss cheese. The far- no effect. At this time, cabin and all Captain Oxley said he appreciated ther down we go the softer does the deck houses were full of water, and the honour they had conferred upon material become so that after öne starboard lifeboat, bridge, and stan-him. Colonel Wainwright had re-spot is dug out to a depth of about dard compasses were washed away.marked about brave deeds. but he two feet or so, the workman are ob At 3 pm. the starboard main rigging thought If there was anything brave ged to dig in some other place. In Crew still down about it it was the Norwegian seamen the course of a week or ten days the the holds shifting cargo. Sounded in the boat who put up such fight hole that was dug out fills itself up ship and found twenty-one inches of against circumstances. They always again even with the surface. The Throughout the night the felt honoured to do their best to assist heat le intense over the whole sur

face of the lake, crew were continually down the hold their brethren in distress at sea- "This asphalt contains very little shifting cargo. On July 4, at 10 s.m.(applause) Whether they were friends foreign matter, and as it stands could it seemed that we could not save the or enemies. He was sure on that be used for road-work. When it is ship, so the remaining boots were pro occasion it was more than an honour, to be used for roofing or the making visioned and all preparations made for after hearing the mate's story, to make of asphalt paints it is put through a leaving the ship. On the 5th July, him and his men comfortable on his special refining process. at & in the morning, we abandoned ship until their arrival ai Monte Video. Asphalt or asphaltum is like coal, the barque, as she was sinking: a: He wished Mr. Vogt to convey to the a product of prehistoric vegetation. 6.30 a.m. she foundered. In my hot King of Norvey his deep and sincere The only other deposit which were the carpenter, steward, cook, appreciation of the gift, which he and approaches this one in size is found and five sailors.. The captain, sail-his family would highly prize.

in the lowlands of Venezuela about. raker, and the rest of the sailors were Captain Goodwin said it gave him fifty. miles from the coast, and very great pleasure to be present on although of a still puter quality the CAPTAIN'S BOAT DISAPPEARS. an occasion of that kind, especially location of the lake makes it hard to We remained in company together when it was a member of the get at. "Some authorities claim that throughout the day. Very bad weather M.M.S.A. who had displayed such these two lakes are connected, and was experienced, and we had great humanity and gallantry in rescuing are fed from the same source through difficulty in keeping the boat afloat, these stamen from a watery grave subterranean fissures in the rock. the crew Continually beling. At 6 He had been through the mill, and pm., being very dark, we were ahead he krew it from both sides.

upright, so the main and mizen top. Mr. John Vogt said it #forded him,account to around a quarter of a

was carried away.

water.

in the other boar.

When this was Oxley's conduct.

Asphalt was first used as a road.. material in Paris some fifty years ago, but has attained its greatest usefulness in America."

of the captain's boat on the top of a Captain Black said it had given his sea. We saw ffe light in the cap principals the greatest pleasure to tain's boat go out, and at the same think that one of their ship's had been time we hord cries for help coming able to effect such a timely rescue of from the direction of that boat. We the subjects of the King of Norway, looked, but no boat could be seen: He would alea kike to join the names of very little avail. Captain Oxlay Owing to the state of the weather, I of the officers and crew of the "Polish had distinguished himself in many could do nothing to render assistance, Monarch" with the rescue, because ways by heroic cts which had not as I had great difficulty in keeping my it mattered not when the action of the come to podce boar from being swamped. Through master might be if he was not sup

On the proposition of Mr. Scott, & cut the night great difficulty was exported to the most extreme by, his vote of thanks was accorded to the perienced in keeping the boar afer Calcers and men

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