BACK MANY YEARS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1924, Page 5

BACK MANY YEARS.

ADVENTUROUS EXPEDITION. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—OOPYEIGHT LONDON, Dec. 27. An expedition, consisting of 14 men under Captain Norman Wilkin, of the Royal Naval Reserve, will sail in the three-master frigate Marian on New Year’s Day from Appledole' where Sir Francis Drake weighed anchor many years ago, and follow minutely the route of the great English sailor around the dangerous Straits of Magellan and up the Pacific Coast. One hundred applications were received for places on the Marian, and Captain Wilkin spent several weeks in choosing mariners from the list. With few exceptions the men are making the trip entirely for the adventure. The mate is a native of Appledore, and has spent .most of his 60 years on sailing vessels. . The moving spirit of the expedition is John Henderson, an Englishman, who mapped much of Borneo and the islands south of India and China. Mr Henderson will stop at the cities which now dot the coasts along which Drake sailed, and- hopes to gather data of the original expedition: The trip is expected to take fiye years.