A Voyage Across the Pac ie from Seattle with a List of Fifteen Degrees vho will take the trouble up the Whangpoo, to the reach between the Nantao waterfront and the Kiangnan Dock & Engineer ing Works, will have an unusual sight for his pains. Even in Shunghai waters, where craft of every de-prion and nationality defie the!
imaginative to remain $9, a six-mast schooner is an unusual sight. Moreover, this sailing vessel, having Just finished her trans-Pacific voyage lasting 69 days, has a list of 15 degrees to intrigue the fancy. It gives her a decidedly jaunty appearance amidst the upstanding spear-like masts of junks near by.
The Dorothy LI. Sterling, as she is named, arrived in Shanghai on Sunday morning, shortly before noon. She came up the Whangpoo under tug-power, and the bright sunlight] sparkled on her delightedly as' she! progressed. Houseboat comment was rife regarding the reasons for the ominous list. It was plain to see that she was filled with Oregon pi her deck space being piled high with the long: smooth planks, and that her home port was Seattle," Beyond that nobody could venture a guess in a steam ridden age.
But a visit to her on Tuesday brought out other high-lights. Her skipper, Captain I. C, Davison, led the way up a swinging rope ladder on the list-side. Inside the captain's! cabin, one stood at attention obliquely, and could hardly restrain hilarity at the appearance of the others in the vicinity thus standing.
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