ry of shipwreck, of robbery, and of privation is told by the Vancouver News Advertiser in connection with the loss of the Scotsman, which sailed from Liverpool on the Lith of September for Montres). Owing to n seamen's strike the usual crew of the Scotsman did not ship, and a number of wharf-rats" had to be taken on at the last moment. All went well—save that these men were green hands and lessened the speed—until the Straits of Belle Isle were reached on the morning of the 2ist of September, Fog came down like a white blanket, and at two o'clock in the morning the vessel struck a rock, and it was soon evident that her case' was hopeless. The life-bon was lowered, any women and children were placed in it, and it was sent away—to destruction. A'heavy wave capsized it, and most of its occupants were drowned. 'All this while on hoard the stokers had got necess to the Yiquor, and had commenced " drunken loot of the passengers' baggage. They Tushed into the cabins slitting open sex and bags, and thieving all_ the Taluables they could Bnd. The officers were unable to control them and—working nobly as they were for the safety of the passengers—had no time to deal with them forcibly. Morning found the alongside a cliff fully 1,000 feet high. The passengers were landed on the rocks, and then began a time of exposure and privation. The unhappy two hundred. existed for four days on biscuit,, corned
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