Karmic Lifeboat & Bating Amusement?

[Terrance]

(November 6, 1942)   British passenger ship sunk by the U-68 (Kptlt
Karl-Friedrich Merten) about 500 miles south of the island of St.
Helena. There were
around 100 deaths among its 300 passengers and crew. Merten believed
that the ship he had sunk was a 8,000 ton cargo boat. After the sinking,
the U-boat commander helped rescue survivors still in the water and had
them placed in the lifeboats. He
then departed the scene with an apology for the sinking but not before
he provided the survivors with precise details of how to reach St.
Helena. However, one lifeboat drifted for fifty-one days before reaching
the coast of Brazil. Only two of its original eighteen people on board,
were still alive. Some years later the British survivors held a reunion
in London and Merten was invited to attend having previously published
his own account of the sinking. At the reunion, one of the survivors was
heard to remark "We couldn't have been sunk by a nicer man". 

The Bay of All Saints is in Brazil. 
 The map makers got the name wrong and called it "All Saints Abbey. 

What is a German soldier's ghost doing on St. Helena? 

Strange places, this Cape and this  island. Paradise almost completely
Lost
and the end of the world as we could know it or Apocalypse if. If what?
If testing Nukes and dropping bomb on scatter brained mother earth
causes a major change in the weather? 

Or

"The Easter Islanders, aware that they were almost 
completely isolated from the rest of the world, 
must surely have realized that 
their very existence depended on the limited resources 
of a small island. After all it was small enough for them 
to walk round the entire island in a day or so and see for 
themselves what was happening to the forests. Yet they were 
unable to devise a system that allowed them to
find the right balance with their environment. 
Instead vital resources were steadily consumed 
until finally none were left."


http://www.serve.com/ecobooks/history.htm

"Mason understands that he may if he wishes see himself thro' Duty at
St. Helena
by baiting Maskelyne thus, any time he has a Velleity to." He also
understands how quickly the amusement value of this will fade."