Rescued Man Returns

Thanks

Letter to the Editor IN your May issue, there appeared, unaer the heading of “Blown to Sea”, the story of my adventures, when I was unfortunate enough to be set adrift, last February.

In this account it was stated that I first landed on East Island. This was not so. It was Nassukwab Island. This correction will clear up some conjecture by the people who know these waters, as to how I was able to get to East Island from where I was, and, also, how I was able to get to the Eigum Group, in a single night.

This mistake was no fault of your cor respondent. At the time I related my story to him, I was under the impression that it was East Island I had landed on.

If you will publish this letter I will take the opportunity to thank collectively all those wonderful people at Sebulagomwa, Salamo and Dobu, for the marvellous kindness and help that I received at their hands. I also would like to express my appreciation to the Papuan Government who sent a flying-boat, at what must have been a great cost, to search for me; and to those members of the R.A.A.F. who conducted the search.

I also would like to thank all those good people who sent letters of sympathy and showed such great kindness to my parents in what was a very trying time for them.

When one realises, as I do now, what a wealth of real sympathy and kindness there still is in this crazy old world, one can look to the future with an easier mind.

I am, etc.,

F. W. J. Low.

Misima, Papua, 16'6/1940.