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aftei arriving onboard i\\Q. Joseph O., to resuscitate Fitch, and the three men 

 remained on board the latter vessel from Sunday night until Tuesday after- 

 noon, when the Star 0/ the East w^s signalled, and ran down and took the 

 men on board. It was a noble deed, and as such we herewith record it in 

 the "Fishermen's Own Book." 



Rescue of a Crew in an Open Boat. — Sch. Thresher, Capt. Andrew 

 McKenzie, at this port from the Banks, May 17, 1881, reported on the out- 

 ward passage, April 22d, lat. 46.39, Ion. 58.5, falling in with Capt. E. Jeary 

 and crew of five men belonging to sch. Flora, of and from St. Pierre. They 

 were in an open boat and had been exposed to the elements eight days and 

 were on allowance of one biscuit daily each. The Flora was bound to Syd- 

 ney for coal, had got caught in the ice, sprung aleak and sunk. Everything 

 was done for the comfort of the sufferers, and they were landed at St. Pierre. 

 Capt. Jeary testified his appreciation of the kind treatment received by 

 giving Capt. McKenzie a written acknowledgment of the same, expressing 

 heartfelt gratitude. 



Four Days and Three Nights Adrift in a Dory Without Food. — 

 Angus Chisholm and William Kennedy left sch. Bellerophon on Grand Bank, 

 April 15, 1881, to visit their trawls. The fog shutting down they succeeded 

 in getting on board of sch. Solomon Poole. When the fog lifted they made 

 another start, but were soon enveloped in the misty haze, from whose perils 

 they escaped a second time by boarding sch. Ocean King. Nothing daunted, 

 as soon as it lighted up a little, they made a third attempt to find their 

 trawls. From that time their experience was the "oft-told tale." Astray 

 upon the high seas, encompassed by a dense fog, with nothing to guide their 

 course, and destitute of food, they rowed and rowed and rowed in their well- 

 nigh hopeless quest for a friendly sail. To their discomforts from exposure 

 in their frail boat, their labor at the oars, and their wearing anxiety as to 

 their possible fate, were soon added the pangs of hunger. These they en- 

 deavored to palliate by eating pieces of raw fish, but their stomachs rejected 

 the unwonted and unsuitable food. Fortunately they were supplied with a 

 quart bottle of fresh water, which was carefully husbanded, and which did 

 much to sustain and cheer them on their weary round. Only a quart of wa- 

 ter ! yet for the time to them their most valuable possession, compared w^ith 

 which all the glittering wealth of the world would have been valueless. For 

 four dreary days and three long nights their lives were one constant monot- 

 ony of desolation, of fruitless longing and unfulfilled hopes. Finally, April 

 19, they were picked up by the bark Von Moltke, Capt. McCuUy, from Lon- 

 donderry for Baltimore, and kindly treated. The bark landed them at 

 Delaware Breakwater, whence they were furnished a free passage home, ar- 

 riving May 3. 



