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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 07, 1899
Page
6
Publication fragment notes a romance by Robt P Whitworth creator of Round the Camp Fire Under the Dray Spangles and Sawdust and The White Woman of Mfundarrak names several works and a character list summarizing an author's catalog in a desolate regional setting.
The group debates leaving by boat but remains stranded on a remote island. They scale cliffs, forage for food, tame a cave, and improvise a lookout as fog closes in. After a perilous ascent, they glimpse a vast inland sea, plan to explore the bay, and endure boat repairs and rough hunting for sustenance.
Sunday rest follows shipboard care as Rand hosts prayers and a somber log recounts hope fading on a remote island. Mrs Rand nears childbirth while Hughes aids a risky birth. The party finds a sheltered bay with seals, birds, and peat forests, sets a new camp, and plans to endure in the wilderness with supplies from the coast.
In a bleak island shelter crisis the mates debate breaking up their long boat to salvage timber for a shelter. The narrator notes dwindling hope of rescue as they weigh building a house versus remaining on exposed rocky shores with scarce tools and unsuitable timber.
A mosaic of curiosities and notes from diverse regions. It cites a harsh wage story in an Indiana paper, fashion critiques of Northern Italy, New Guinea’s venomous bird, Russian lodging, glove tinting danger, and draconian Massachusetts laws on public kissing. It also details longevity myths in Volhynia, a Salvation Army episode in New York, electricity theft in St. Petersburg, historic Chinese executions, and Pasteur era germ remarks. The piece closes with Madagascar spider silk production and a winding-loom scheme.
In Flora Antarctica Nettles are praised as a useful vegetable once harvested young. The author recalls trying nettles at Oxford and noting they don’t keep after cutting, suitable for nettle tea or beer. He also highlights dandelion as a tasty alternative, describing a simple boiled young leaf dish served on toast and an optional milder variant with rice and oil.
A garbled account shows a speaker urging the crowd to get water while others note a long history and unresolved silence. The passage references an English observer and an American scene, but details remain unclear and fragmentary.
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