WELLINGTON TO PERU

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26824, 1 September 1952, Page 6

WELLINGTON TO PERU

Rough Voyage For Yacht Miru (N,Z. Press Associntion—Copvrighi) (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) CALLAO, Auf. t The yacht Miru which Dr. Thoaa Davis, a New Zealand public «■} official, has just sailed from welW ton to Callao, was slightly dam#l« j>y heavy winds, and win require seven days’ repairs. Dr. Davis, accompanied by hil to and two children and two other ptf; sons, took 45 days fqr the voyage a more than 5500 miles. He intends to sail the Miru to BW 1 ton, via the Panama Canal, Haiti and New York, making a to distance from Wellington of aw® l 9000 miles. Dr. Davis says the purpose of voyage to Callao was to tract in descendants of a group of PolyntHM; who left their home islands arounj Sarotonga 150 years ago and traveuw to Peru by large canoes in to a legend that the land acrow sea was one large goldmine. Dr. DP* believes that their descendants wj now living in the Peruvian highlana perhaps isolated from the. rest ofJJ ; population, and preserving social and religious characteristic!. Dr. Davis and his party Wffl Peruvian museums and research institutions in the attempt to cdnnnn this theory. The Miru’s complement was nows to the last tin of bully beef at end of the voyage. In an air to letter to officials of Harvard Univtr®v Dr. Davis said that the Miru lashed by winds of hurricane joj during parts of the journey.. her fuel tanks nad run dry, the Mi reached Callao with the auxiliary • gine running jerkily on kerosene xro the galley stove. . , « UMth Her sails were torn m long with the raging winds. . terfft “It was a rough trip for Wmuch wetness, cold and weather to cope with, but we safely,” wrote Dr. Davis. “The from now on along the coast or , America through the Panama c • and up the east coast will be a J • ride, but the Caribbean may sting a nasty one.” After wrestling with flying pans in the galley of the craft Mrs Davis is anxious to shore when the journeyxends aidton. “Dr. Davis can go to “g’ wants to. but the dry land J o *, t she wrote. “When this is all . am going to buy a cottage in tne m tains and breed Alsatian aogs-