STRANGE ADVENTURE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11949, 20 May 1933, Page 5

STRANGE ADVENTURE

YOUNG .MEN’? MISHAPS. LONDON. May S. A n 18-year-old Rohinson Crusoe and a modem Trader Horn were landed by the liner, Doiius. on docking after a six months’ trip at Liverpool. The ‘'Crusoe” adventure concerned James Miller, on IS-year-old apprentice in the Doiius, who fell overboard in the dark off Singapore last January. He swam through a sharkinfested sea to an island, found L uninhabited, ’and started to swim to another island, when he was picked up by Chinese boatmen and restored to his ship.

The adventures of Frank Jones, a bronzed young man of 23. of Surrey, took him to the same part of the world. Seven years age he started trading among the islands north of Australia. With two other young men. Jack Gatty, brother of Harold Catty, tho American airman, who flew the world, and David Sibree, of Hull, he set off from Thursday Island.’ on a trading trip to New -G»m-

Their cutter struck a reef in a gale off Dutch New Guinea, and when they eventually reached land they were confronted with miles of mangrove swamps. “M e went for two. days waist deep in mud,” Jones said. “At last wo struck a village of headhunters. .One of our party fired over their heads, and they ran away. Village after village seemed to know of our presence, and vhc-v wo arrived there they took up the same threatening attitude, he plodded on for 10 days, and - reached the small Dutch settlement of Marauki.” Jones and his friends at last reached "Celebes l : Island, where Jones boarded the Doiius as a distressed British’ seaman.