Secretary of the Yacht Club, -has received another interesting letter from the shipper of the Yacht Shanghai, aboard which five Danes are making a trip from China to Denmark. At the time of writing the yacht had reached Iloilo. Mr. H. J. Kjaer, the shipper writes We are now lying here taking provisions and fuel oil for our voyage across the Sulu Sea. We intend to go through Balabao Strait to Jesselton, B.N.B., but meantime I will tell you a little about our adventures since we left Amoy.
It was dead calm when we left Amoy on March 10 and as we wanted to get out of the range of the Chinese pirates as soon as possible we started our motor and shaped a course for Daisho To in the Pescadores, which we sighted next morning. Here we got an easterly breeze, stopped the motor, set sails on a course for Cape Bojeador. The wind increased and when we were abreast of the South Point of Formosa we got a very heavy sea from the east. On Tuesday the 18th, strong gale and very high seas, we could not proceed, so we have to with the sea anchor. The sea anchor seems to be too small, but when we hoisted the mizzen and hauled it flat, we got the stem pretty close against the wind. At night the wind abated a little, so we have our sea anchor up, set reefed mainsail and foresail and proceeded on our cruise. It was very difficult to take observations on account of the heavy rolling of the boat and the big waves continuously rising above the horizon.
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