COURTAULD’S SURPRISE
WILKINS PARTY’S ARRIVAL CAM PE ll HU RPR I WED IN BED LONDON, Alay 11. A Times copyright message from Angmagsalik states that covering 41 miles in 23 hours, in which they stopped for only two hours, the Watkins party unexpectedly arrived at 5 o’clock in the morning surprising the camper in bod. Courtauld was photographed in his prophet’s beard and locks. The seven months’ growth made it hard to recognise him. He enjoyed his first wash for seven months, after which ho breakfasted with zest. lie. had not tasted bread, salt, or marmalade since Novem Ahrenberg will (it floats to-morrow for his return flight, to Sweden, taking the first mail since the Quest left in Sept ember.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 111, 13 May 1931, Page 7
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