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“I’m almost relieved to know the ship has been beached so her on the bottom a little easier to take”

Gamay smiled and told him about the incidents that had occurred since the discovery Fredricks seemed surprised by what he heard but mentioned that odd theories and occurrences had always surrounded the ship

“A psychic once held that they’d made land and started a new civilization,” he explained

“Closer to the truth than we h it was pretty clear that the passengers never made land

“One of the strangest stories took place in 1987,” he said

“When you thought you’d found the wreck?” she asked

“No, that was years later,” he said “Back in ’87 an old, double- end lifeboat was found adrift off the coast of Maputo Bay, Mozambique By some fisherman, if I recall There were three people in it A woht bullet wound, but it was not fatal Unfortunately, dehydration wasfor all three of them They were identified as part of a faht they’d escaped from somewhere up the coast Somalia was the prime suspect It was a pretty lawless place even back then”

“Sounds terrible,” she said “But what does that have to do with the Waratah?”

“The old lifeboat they were in was rotted half to the core It had been hastily patched and sealed with household iteer, had it not been found Several experts insisted it was a design used and built from 1904 to 1939 Years later, someone did a computer analysis of the photos taken then and clai still visible on the highest plank, basically because the layers of paint had limited the erosion I truly can’t re could have been interpreted to spell Waratah”

Ga”

He shook his head “At the time, everyone assumed it was a hoax Like that alien autopsy video But now, after what you’ve found, there is a possibility it ht be true

“And then there was the Klaar River Gang,” he said,on to a new subject

“I was just reading about them,” she said

“Some think they bribed their way aboard the ship,” he told her

“Really?”