33["The Waratah", The Register (Adelaide, SA), Friday 11 March 1910, page 9]

THE WARATAH.;

Alleged Floating Bodies.

Statements Substantiated.

The startling story told by Mr. Day, ex-second officer of the steamer Tottenham, published in The Register on Thursday, in regard to the sighting of dead bodies off the South African coast by the crew of that vessel ten days after the Waratah disappeared in the same neighbourhood, has received corroboration.

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But the man now in Westport said emphatically that the chief and second officers of the Tottenham stated to him and others on board the ship that they saw the body of a little girl, reported by the apprentice, and could stake their lives that it was that of a girl 10 or 12 years of age, and not a fish. The second engineer also stated that he saw the body of a woman, clad in a nightdress, with an albatross perched on top of it; also the trunk of another body, which floated by so close to the ship as to receive on it the water from the main discharge...

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