Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1913 — TWO WAIFS OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO WAIFS OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA

Willie Gee of Jamaica is a veritable “waif of the sea.” Down where Willie lives the bathing is always fine, and he ‘‘takeß to water like a fish.” While the old steamer the Foxton Hall was plowing along near the Windward passage Mate Donnelly espied a monster cocoanut tree, to which a human being was clinging. The being turned out to be a little ten-year-old Jamaican pickaninny, almost starved to death, but clinging to his dog. They had been blown 100 miles out to sea in a hurricane.