THRILLING EXPERIENCES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1117, 3 May 1911, Page 4

THRILLING EXPERIENCES.

■ « VOYAGE OF 11,000 MILES. Tho tiny yawl Pandora, which called in at Auckland some mouths ago, is slowly beating her y;ay round tho world, She was at tho Falkland Mauds in February, her arrival there martins the completion, of a journey of more than 11,000 miles from tho port of departure, Buubury, West Australia. Her owner, Capfain G. 1). Blythe, of Coventry, England, and his maio, Cap« tain Peter Arapakis, have mot with startling experiences. When they wrote to Mr. A.. V. Maniachi, of Melbourne, by tho last mail, they were superintending repairs to the vessel in preparation for liic journey to New York. Probably no craft of tlic diminutive size of the Pandora has ever rounded Cape Horn before. When GO miles to the south of Falkland Island? a north-easterly gale was run into. Captain Arapakis, in a letter to Mr. Mnniachi, relates what happened:— "On January 22, at about four o'clock in tho afternoon, when Captain Blytho and myself wero in our cabin a tremendous wave swept over tho deck, and turned* our craft completely over. The moment was critical. My partner and myself and all our belongings wow found on the roof of the cabin. Fortunately the position did not last, for in a few seconds oar ynwi righted herself from the other side. She turned completely round from left to right. When our boat righted herself I found that my face was bruised and bleeding. Our dinghy was washed overboard, our mast broken, and tho port side of the vessel badly damaged. We were left to the mercy of the waves until tho morning, when the wind changed to the south."