A WHALER’S ADVENTURES
The whaling barque Beluga arrived at' San Francisco recently, after an eventful voyage. The captain of the Beluga reported that lie had lost four of his crew, and on September 10 picked up five frost-bitten and delirous castaways the survivors of the crew of the French ship William Boyle, which was wrecked two days earlier by collision Vith an ice. berg. Despite the care of the men of the Beluga, theso five, who had endured terrible sufferings, died and were buried on Hessol Island.
Off Unalaska the Beluga was surrounded by icebergs, and was partly dismasted by a fearful snowstorm. Captain Porter had to be lashed to the wheel in order to navigate the vessel through the bergs. Six of the crew were badly frostbitten, and one died A large whale waS' sighted on Octolfer 20, Five of the crew, manning the yawl, barbs into him, but the whale, thrashing the water*- into, foam, smashed the boat, and drowned three. -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2457, 23 March 1909, Page 4
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163A WHALER’S ADVENTURES Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2457, 23 March 1909, Page 4
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