AN ADVENTUROUS SEAMAN. Captain J. Nicolaisen, of the Norwegian barque Triton, at present lying alongside the Auckland railway wharf, is a mariner of the adventurous type, says the New Zealand Herald, and at one time, accompanied bv four companions, he made a daring voyage from Norway to the Cape of Good Hope in a ten-ton craft. The little vessel, named the Rana, was a Norwegian pilot boat of the cutter type, with one mast. Leaving the Norwegian port of Lillisand, a voyage of five days brought the adventurers t'o Dover, England, where they spent a couple of days. The next port of call was Madeira, where a few days were spent. As one of the Eoyal mail steamers of the Union Castle line was at Madeira at the time, hundreds of leople came to sec the small Norwegian Ciaft. Cape de Verde Islands .were next visited. Here fresh water was taken in, but owing to a mistake in buying some
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1911, Page 7
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