ROMANCE OF THE SEA.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 331, 5 July 1875, Page 3

ROMANCE OF THE SEA.

The South Australian Register relates the following, which it describes as a “ Romance of the Sea ” :—“ The story of a somewhat perilous adventure has been told at Port Pirie by a man who may consider himself fortunate in being able to narrate it. He is a fisherman, who had in pursuit of his calling cruised from the place mentioned alone, and nearly reached the opposite shore of the Gulf, when, to his astonishment and dismay, a large piece of the boat’s bottom became loose, and she immediately filled and sank in about Bft or 10ft ot water. The man, who is an expert swimmer, safely reached the shore, but all his provisions had floated away, and his matches were rendered useless, so he found himself on an inhospitable coast, without food or the means of making a fire or solacing himself with a pipe of tobacco. Fortunately, the mishap occurred at high water, so at low tide (he adventurer was able to reach his boat, which had by that time become partially embedded in the sand. After severe exertion he managed to work the craft into shallow water, where he patched up the leak as well as he could, and eventually put to sea again. He arrived at Port Pirie on Saturday forenoon, the 12th inet, safe and sound, except for the exhaustion which necessarily followed his perilous cruise. For neatly two days his only food was the plant known as “ pig’s face,” which he of course had to eat raw. He will probably take care injfuture that there are no loose planks under his feet before he trusts himself so far from human aid in case of need.”