As' night came the wind increased
and the waves tossed him and his
hatch cover back and forth until he
thought it would be impossible for
him to hold his shupport, but toward
midnight he found that he was be
ing washed toward the Cavite shore.
Just as his hope was strong the tide
and the wind carried him to sea
again. He struggled against them,
but was swept out. Something
brushed against his leg. He thought
it a shark and screamed in fear.
"It did not touch me again or I
should have gone mad." The water
was cold, the night dark and .the
rain beat down on him. He heard a
cry in the darkness and pushed. his
hatch cover in the direction- from
which it sounded. Toward morning
he found a Filipino boy, another sur
vivor of the wreck, clinging to an
oil box. They drifted together.
