TRAGIC FATE of Lorenz is symbolized by the flag of distress fluttering above 

 bleak, parched sands of barren Bindloe (Marchena) Island. Lorenz and Trygve 

 Nuggerood, a Norwegian fisherman, vanished in the letter's sloop, the Dina- 

 mita, enroute from Academy Bay to Wreck Bay on July 13, 1934. Their dehy- 

 drated bodies were found on Marchena's shores November 17, 1934. They died 

 of hunger and thirst amid untold suffering. With them when their craft was 

 driven from its course by swirling currents was Jose Pasmino. Neither Pasmino 

 nor the Dinamita have been seen since. Mariners assume the ill-fated boy was 

 swept far out into mid-Pacific by the irresistible Humboldt current. 



