WORLD TOUR IN A JUNK
. To travel round the world in a Chinese junk is the feat to be attempted by a young man, Mr. J. L. Stevenson, of Jersey, serving with the Indo-China Sfceara Navigation Company at Hong Kong..He is having his own junk built for him at Swatow, China, and ho intends" to commeneo his great 25,000 miles adventure : within the next few weeks with two companions. Mr. Stevenson thinks -that the journey will take two years. On the voyage (says the "Daily Chronicle") he- will take meteorological observations for the British and United States Governments, and try to- discover several islands seen years ago by passing vessels, but not yet charted.. His route will be by way of Borneo, British New Guinea, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New; Zealand, Tahiti, Panama Canal, and across the Atlantic to Jersey and London. Mr. Stevenson is 30. He was educated at Victoria. College, Jersey, and ho went into the merchant service as an apprentice in 1917.'
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 4
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