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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2012, 22 February 1907, Page 4

FORTY WRECKED SAILORS. LOSS OF THU ANNASONA AND MAICLti WYN. SYDNEY', February IS. Forty shipwrecked mariners landed at Sydney this morning from the pilot steamer Captain Cook, this vessel having returned from Lord Howe Island shortly after daylight. Some of tlio castaways belonged to the barque Maolgwyn, abandoned near Lord Howe Island quite recently; the others came from the barque Annasona, wrecked on Middleton Hoof. The castaways, according to what Captain Hildebrand, of the pilot steamer, saw when ho arrived, wero nearly all in splendid health, and had spoilt a good time at Lord llowo Island. There wero a few found to bo suffering from colds and chills due to oxposuro after leaving their ships, hut, speaking generally, the” were very well. “And,” said the master of the Captain Cook, “I received very good accounts of the conduct of the men while on tlio island.” Very little was said at the time about the loss of the two ships, except that the Maolgwyn people lost nearly all their belongings, while the Annasona crew were able to secure most of their effects. When seen by a reporter, Captain H. T. Thomas, of the barque Maelgwyn, gave a short account of the loss of his vessel.

“Wo loft I’isco, on the AVost Coast of South America,” said the captain, “on November 17, in ballast, for Sydney Heads. For about two months wo experienced fine weather, hut about tho middle of January a change set in. On tho 18th of that month a sudden lurch of the barque caused a shifting of tho ballast, and tile Maelgwyn went over on her beam ends.” “AA’here wore you then, captain?” asked tho reporter. “About 100 miles from Lord Howe Island.” “AVliat did you do, then?” “There was nothing left to be done but to cut away the masts. That, however, did not have the effect of righting tho ship.” "Ail awkward position to bo in,” ventured the reporter. “Yes. Generally speaking, the cutting away of the masts enables tho hull to right itself, but in this ease that step did not have much effect. However, we drifted in the derelict for a week, but on January 25, when about 32 miles from Lord Howe Island, decided to abandon it, and myself and crew, numbering 20 men, took to the open boats. The ship’s two boats were sufficient for tho accommodation of tho men, and aftor a pull of twelve hours reached Lord Howe Island.” Tho Maelgwyn, added the captain, was an iron vessel of 1345 tons, and was launched about 22 years ago. She was owned in Liverpool. One of tho Maelgwyn’s seamen gave a graphic description of the crew’s experience after the stone ballast began to shift. The skipper ordered all hands to shorten sail, and then sent them below to try and trim tho ballast and make things snug again. “But this,” said one’ of the seamon, “was a harder job than it looked. AA r e could not stow it any way. The more we tried the more it shifted. Over and over to one side it worked, until before very long it had the ship very nearly on her beam ends.

•WRECKED ON A REEF. As to the loss of tlic Anuasona, ono of the members of the crew said: —- “I was in the watch which went off deck about 4 o’clock this morning. We were out from Callao—l don’t know how many days—and were bound for Newcastle. Everything seemed all right when I went off deck and, of course, I don’t know what Impelled after that, until we were called up again, which would be at about 20 minutes to 5 o’clock. It was then just getting daylight.” “Wliat did you see when you came up again?” “Well, we could see the reef.” “How far away was it?” “I’m not going to say anything about that. 1 don’t know.” “lint was it close—say a couple of hundred yards—or a mile away?” “I don’t know; and I ain’t goin’ to say.” “At any rate,” lie added, “the vessel soon afterwards hit it. The weather was hazy thenj and a hit thick.” “How did she go on?” he was asked. “Stern first,” was his reply. “There .was a pretty good swell running, and she started to bump heavily at once.” Another seaman who was on deck at the time, being a member of the watch which had gone on deck at 4 a.m., said that he and others were filling their pipes, and waiting for the morning coffee, in ignorance of all danger, when they “heard the old man singing out.” At this they looked over the side, and saw the surf breaking on the reef, about—-accord-ing to his judgment—3o yards away. “But we didn’t leave the ship all at once,” he continued. “No; we stopped on board for six days, until the following Friday. All the time the ballast kept shifting and shifting, until it had our lee rail completely under the water. “We saw a ship,” he added, “and wo fired a cannon to attract attention, while we were in that position, but evidently she never saw us, or heard the report, fot she took no notice. At night wo fired rockets, but got no answer, although I toll you wo looked out very anxiously. In the day time wo rigged up lings of distress, but there was nobody but ourselves to look at them.”

CLUE TO LOST LANGUAGE. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES MADE IN CENTRAL ASIA. Further news which has now reached Bombay with rogard to Dr. Stein’s exploration of Ivhotan on the Hangaya Tuti resulted in the discovery of many interesting small terra-cotta relievos which once decorated the temple walls. The stylo of these sculptures is plainly derived from models of Grmco-Buddliist art, and agrees closely with that of the Rawak ltupa relievos, dating approximately from tho fifth or sixth century, A.D. A specially noteworthy feature of the sculptural remains which have been discovered is tho prevalence of richly gilt pieces. This strikingly confirms the hypothetical explanation given by Dr. Steen of the origin of leaf gold, namely that is was obtained by washing from the culture Yatkan. strata of the old Kliotan capital of Proceeding to tho ruined sites of the Ivhotan oasis, Dr. Stein examined the Kliadalik site, where lie recovered a large number of paper manuscripts in Sanskrit, Chinese, and tho unknown language of old Kliotan. The great majority of the manuscripts contain portions of Buddhist texts, which have been deposited as votive offerings. The stylo of the remains of stuccorelievos, frescoes, and painted panels made it highly probable that the shrine belonged to the same period as the temples evacuated by Dr. Stein at Bandannilig, that is to say, the latter portion of the eight'll century A.D. The subsequent discovery in a second shrine close by of stringed rolls of Chinese copper money supplied definite numismatic proofs of the identity of date. The some temple also yielded portions of Sanscrit manuscripts on birch bark, which were of far earlier date, and had no doubt been imported from India. There were further discovered some excellently preserved large rolls bearing Buddhist texts in Chinese, and having on the reverse tulo what was evidently a translation in to the unknown language of old Kho tan. It may prove that these will furnish the long-desired clue whereby the latter language may be deciphered.

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