DARING YORKSHIREMEN.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12505, 5 April 1909, Page 4

DARING YORKSHIREMEN.

Four_yOxthg Yorkshiremen who left Dover in a'fishing smack last June have arrived at Gape Town, after a seven months' voyage, during which they covered a distance of . 10,000 miles. They purchased a 22-ton fishing smack, the Forget-me-Not, from :a Dover fisherman, and visited Madeira; Las Palmas, and the Cape Verde Islands. After sailing over to the Brazilian coast, they made for the lonely island of Tristan da Cunha. From Tristan da -Cunha the Forget-me-Not sailed for Nightingale Is.land, and thence to Gough Island, where a brief stay was made. The little vessel next made for Cape Town. The voyagers had .almost peached the end of their resources when Table Mountain t was sighted, their provisions having been reduced to a few pounds of flour, a little tea, and four gallons of tainted water. It is stated 'that only one of the four men had ever been in a boat before. .: ■