"We have heard," said one of them, "that Lieutenants Dobbin and Goldsmith are going to get medals for their bravery on the Warren Hastings. They ought certainly to get medals too for their rescue of us. Their lifeboat was nearly stove in, over and over again, before they could get us off." Those of the officers and crew of the Bfayo who could use needles promptly set to work to turn their bed-clothing into skirts, and so on, for the ladies, for they had nothing but that in which they stood upright, which in some cases was very limited, and in: all was saturated through and through. In these impromptu garments were they taken to Aden, and the ladies of Aden came forward immediately upon their arrival and gave them better clothing. It was long before they could eat anything substantial. Even during the earlier part of the time of the voyage home on the India they could not take a square meal. The passengers on jthe India, in, were most kind, Lady Gerrard and Sir Alexander McKenzie being particularly attentive. Shirts, bodices, underclothing, hats, and boots' were supplied to the Indy survivors in. profusion from the trunks of the deeply sympathetic fellow-passengers. The men in most cases preferred to buy slop suits at Port Said.
It only. remains to be added that all the survivors spoken to declared that the captain arid officers of the Aden behaved magnificently so long as they: lived.
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