The Archive · 1892

THE HEROISM OF MR. HERTZOG

16th Feb, Tore is not often, happily, an opportunity for the display of such true heroism as that evinced on the night of Sunday, the 7th instant, by Mr. Hertzog, the second officer of the steamer A line Seyd. He was twice thrown out of the lifeboat and managed to crawl up the beach, in a blinding snowstorm, with his clothes freezing to him, his comrades, one foreigner and two Chinese, being too much exhausted to save themselves, Nine men out of ten in his position would have thanked God that they were

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