JUNGLE PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 11

JUNGLE PEACE.

SUSSEX TO AFRICA. ' TIRED OF HURLY-BURLY. TWO BRITONS BUILD YAWL. (Special.— Ky Air Mall.) I-<*NPOX. November 19. Tired of civilised life, two Britons ara to t-eek peace in the West Africa* jungle. From a derelict hull that cost £1 10 and material found on a ruhbi«.fc dump at Shoreham Harbour. Suss*-*, they are building a .Tj-Jooi raw] in which they will shortly set sail for ett Africa. ! _ Roth men have roamed mutt of their I li\e-_ One. .lack Han-on. born in Briljsh t'olunibia. li\ ed alw.ird hi- iat her "a fi-hing boat. and in it wandered the l'acitic until i-cnl ar-hore at 1 lie age of , 1 -* 1n educated, he went 11 ,r, i-pei-i ing in Aia-ka and Northern .I aoada. i Hi* companion. Allan Orace.-was born ■in tah-utta. ~Mv mother was a Highland woman and my father was an oldjtime sea captain and a Tipperary man. ! are relying on sail only." (.race 'aid this week. "Our first stop will be Casablanca, North Africa, and with favourable wind we should cover the 1700 miles in ten days. Our only ri-k i- that we might meet a storm going 'across, but once we strike Afrka we shall cruise down the coast if. La - and after a .short stay we shall -a ; ' up one of the rivers until we rca h 1.. vplored territorv. "The ship's outfit is tw,, f.-, fishing tackle. coffee. "0 gallon- of fresh water, sweetened tinned rr.iik. salt beet, haricot beans. an<l the black cat we found wandering on the rubbish dump to which we arc moored." The t w.» men met four years ago, when th<> f> reman of a contractor s gang j old <-rare to give Hanson a lift with a iob. Ther teamed up tether, found themsehes sharing the same tobawo jHjcch-and the «ame ideai