"On the 13th September, 1883, the steamship _Rewa_ was proceeding
through the Gulf of Aden, when a Lascar fell overboard. Being unable to
swim, he drifted astern rapidly. Mr. Walter Cleverley, a passenger,
promptly jumped overboard, swam to the man--then fifty yards from the
ship--and assisted him to a life-buoy, which was previously thrown. The
vessel was going thirteen knots an hour. Captain Hay, commanding the
ship, states: 'The danger incurred was incalculable, as the sea
thereabouts is infested with sharks. The salvor was forty minutes in the
water, supporting the man. Cleverley jumped off top of the poop, a
height of thirty feet to the surface of the water.'"
[Illustration: LIEUT. THE HON. WILLIAM GRIMSTON R.N.
_From a Photo. by Bassano._]