They Took A Chance-And Lost
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From a Special Correspondent.
t TULAGI, February 4. ||N January 25, the ill-fated Chance was towed into Tulagi and pulled up in the Government boatshed.
Some months ago this small vessel ■drifted onto a reef on Ysabel, and natives found the dead body of John Dow in the cabin. The old man had been dead some time and the flag was flying at half mast.
The Chance left Boston a year ago, on
a world tour with two old adventurers aboard, John Dow and John Myers. Neither seemed to have possessed any means.
Myers left his friend at Panama, and Dow continued on alone through the Pacific, The Chance is a converted whale boat about 26 ft. long, lightly built with rolling chocks and two masts. She has little or no accommodation for stores or living.
So ends another sea tragedy.
Photograph (reproduced from a postcard found on the vessel) showing the “Chance” and her original crew.