Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Wednesday the 7th of August

They numbered one hundred and twenty-six souls and as they started on their journey each able-bodied castaway carried five pounds of flour and six pounds of beef or pork. They had, on the advice of Captain Coxon, discarded their hats and created turbans and shawls of silk and muslin and they looked strange, even to themselves, like a colourful tribe of feckless Bedouin, bereft and gone astray on a green shore.