DRAKE'S VOYAGE
THROUGH STRAITS OF MAGELLAN
ADVENTURERS TO FOLLOW,
(OSITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIQBT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 27th December.
An expedition consisting of fourteen men under Captain Norman Wilkiti, of the Royal Naval Reserve, will sail in the three-masted frigate Marian on New Year's Day from Applodore, where Drake weighed anchor in. 1577, and will follow minutely the route of the great English sailor around the dangerous Straits of Magellan and up the Pacific coast. A hundred applications were received for places on the Marian, and Captain Wilkin spent several weeks in choosing his mariners from the list. With a few e:ccepti6Us, the men are making the trip entirely for adventure. The mate is a native of Appledore, and has spent most of hi> sixty years on sailing vessels.
The moving spirit of the expedition is Mr. John Henderson, an Englishman who mapped much of Borneo and the islands south of India and China. Mr. Henderson will stop at cities which now dot the coasts along which Drake sailed, and hopes to gather data relating to the original expedition. The trip is expected to take five years.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1924, Page 7
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187DRAKE'S VOYAGE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1924, Page 7
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