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Rescue at Nuulakita Island after a brutal tropical ordeal
An unnamed narrator recalls being stranded on Nuulakita in the Ellice Islands. After a cyclone and weeks of hunger, he survives by improvised shelter and raising birds for messages. A Samoan missionary-led rescue party eventually reaches Nuulakita, aided by bird-post letters and determined local followers.
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Apia
Samoa
Ellice Islands
Symonds
Funafuti
Vaitupu
Nuulakita
Ellice Island
Paulo
Nanumea
Bird Post
Alamoa
Nicutao
Poe