ADVENTUROUS CRUISE.
DUTCH-CA NADI AN CROSSES PACIFIC IN JUNK.
PIRATES, TYPHOONS AND SNAKES.
(Received June 4, 9.10.p.m.) NEW 7 YORK, June 3. After heating off Chinese pirates, floating through two typhoons, losing the ship’s rudder, eating a chow dog and part of a sixteen foot typhoon, which he killed in single combat, Captain George Maard, who is making a two-year voyage across the Pacific through the Atlantic in a fifty-three foot junk of his own construction, anchored in Sheepshead Bay, Captain Maard, who is of GanadianDutch parentage, said he planned to remain until lie was tired of it and then sail through the Panama Canal for China for further adventures. — Reuter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9723, 5 June 1924, Page 5
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