Quatisino Sound, Oct.
Captain John Anderson of the Shanghai junk Taiping yesterday described the 108-day voyage of the frail craft through storms and calms with the crew near starvation, and of attack by a pirate vessel The Taiping left Shanghai April 7, the Captain said, but the Chinese crew "got sea-sick and were unable to manage the sails, so we returned fo Shanghai and signed on a Nor-
"We oft again on April 22. (Chinese pirates chased us, but we beat them to Kagoshima and "again headed out into the Pacife, We had fo turn back again when our motors. failed, and landed at Kochi where the boat sprung a leak."
The Taiping sailed again on June 15, but struck 'a typhoon within 40 hours after leaving port, They managed to ride it out, however, But met further bad weather. They were foreed to reduce their rations te one bow! of rice daily per man, and boiled it" in three-quarters' sea water, The crew killed a few sea gulls, but they had only a small bit of rice when they sighted land, and hod only 20 gallons of water left.
'They were considering killing their and cat, the Captain said, when they. sighted Queen 'Charlotte' Island jon September 30 and picked up food land water there, The junk will try to make Seattle under its own power in a few days. "United Press.
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