During their sojourn on the island of Pasco, they discovered that their oat, buffetted by adverse winds, and strained by waves and typhoons, could not cope with the winds of the land waters and so they proceeded by the s. Isodoro Pons, which touches Pasco three times yearly, Manila, where they are now trying. to obtain another boat to carry out their original plans, which were to 0 to New Guinea to prospect for old, or to work in gold mines there.
Mr. Gates is quite firm in his contention that he has had enough of small boats and is looking forward his trip in the Potsdam. The Flying Dutchman trip was his third experience in sailing, although this was the smallest boat. 'The other two Were schooners. His first sailing trip was on the Valentine-Franklin-Barnett treasure hunting expedition at 'Cocos Island, off the coast of Costa Rica, where a fabulous amount of gold' and silver is supposed to be Duried. Mr. Gates admitted that his parly found no trace of the treasure. His second trip was as navigator in a converted lumber schooner from Panama to Sydney, Australia.
Not What It Used to Be Recent communications from the other two members of the Flying. Dutchman expedition advised Mr. Gates that, after they sailed from Formosa, the stoves refused to work and the two subsisted on cold foods for two weeks. During their enforced sojourn' in the islands they existed on native foods, such as yams, coconuts, and turtle eggs. If It were not such a far-fetched story, Mr. Gates admitted that he might be persuaded to visit Babuyan Island after all, This island, just north of Luzon, is reputed to have 20 beautiful women to each man. It was the inal intention of the party to investigate this story. The other two, after nearly wrecking their boat attempt to land at this island, Tearned that the story was told 35 years ago, but that conditions since Adventure is not what it used to be, in the opinion of this weary
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