Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III RESCUE AT SEA XTRACT from the San Francisco Chronicle of January 24, 1904: RESCUE AT SEA Among the passengers yesterday on board the incoming Oceanic S. S. Co.‘s Mariposa was Captain Broughton and nine South Sea Islanders, of the schooner North Star, capsized in north lat. 34, west long. 132, during a heavy squall. Captain Broughton was below at the time, and hardly managed to scramble out of his cabin before the ship went over. The disaster is ascribed to the carelessness of the kanaka crew, who were all asleep at the moment the squall struck the vessel, which was lying becalmed with her sails up. The crew, none of whom was drowned, contrived to perch themselves on the ship’s bottom, and after four days of intense suffering were picked up by the W. H. Hall, of this city, in lumber for Suva, Fiji. The Hall, in her turn, transferred them to the mail steamer, which was fortunately intercepted a week later. Captain Broughton can not speak too highly of the extreme kindness of Captain Hayward, PurserSmith, and the officers and passengers of the Mari- posa toward himself and his crew. A concert was given in aid of the shipwrecked mariners, and the sum of $318.75 realized on their behalf. The North Star was of seventy-four tons register, built at Bath, Maine, in 1884, and carried no insurance. It was learned from Captain Broughton that she had been employed in the coprah trade for many years, and was on her way to this port for dry-docking and repairs. Western bound ship-masters are warned to look out for the derelict, which was still afloat when last sighted. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER IV THE RUBY RING THE loss of the North Star, together with the coin in the ship’s safe, cost Matt between eighteen and twenty thousand dollars. The vessel had not…