![]() “After that, we we all fell down there and sleep until the sunrise the next morning woke us up.” Then, desperate to quench their thirst, they hunted sea birds, drank their blood and drained their eggs. “We were very happy, but the first thing we did, we say a prayer, thank God for what he brought us to,” he said. Mano Totau visiting the grave of his wife. Eventually the others made it to the island. The other boys called to him from the boat to see if he had made it, but he was so weak he could not stand, he could only call out to them that he was alive. “When I reach the shore, I tried to stand up but when I stand up the whole world is spinning, so I laid down and crawl ashore and when I touch the dry grass, then I lie down.” “I had to go first and I told the boys: ‘We have to say a prayer first before I hop in the sea.’”ĭespite the fact that the reef was not far from the boat, Totau said he had a “very, very hard time” reaching it because he was so weak from “lying in the boat for eight days without food, without water”. ![]() “We did not get to the island until nighttime, in the dark, so I had to swim ashore,” says Totau. Their story has suddenly become well-known again after featuring in Rutger Bregman’s Humankind. Mano Totau and five friends managed to survive on an uninhabited island for 15 months in 1965-66. ![]()
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