The Cape Horn Voyages of Captain Villiers
AN ODD NUMBER If there is luck in odd numbers Captain Alan Villiers should have a good voyage round Cape Horn in the Joseph Conrad. This will be his seventh voyage round the Horn. Captain Viliiers hopes to round the Horn in April or in May at the latest. Though westerly winds usually favour the Horn passage when made from the Pacific side, he has no desire to round the capo, which is in 56 degrees south, in June, in the depth of winter. Captain Villiers has played with the idea of dropping in on an Australian who runs a sheep station on an island just to the north of Cape Horn. The sheanng-shed, in which they put through 6000 sheep, is almost in the shadow of the Horn. However, he thinks that he will keep to the high sea.
For the same reason, ho has put aside a suggestion that he should put into New Y'ear’s Bay, or the Bay of Good Success, in Terra del Fuego. It is true that Cook put into harbour in Terra del Fuego, but the fact that one of Banks’ servants was frozen to death there is not en ouraging.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 8, 10 January 1936, Page 8
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204The Cape Horn Voyages of Captain Villiers Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 8, 10 January 1936, Page 8
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