"Timi" Is Dead: Dwight Long's Companion on World Voyage
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And the world is never sympathetic towards failures.
“Timi” Is Dead
Dwight Long’s Companion on World Voyage “'T'IMI,” the young Tahitian who was A accompanying Dwight Long, an American student, on a world cruise in the ketch Idle Hour, died at Colombo early in January.
He had been with the Idle Hour since the beginning of last year when the yacht picked him up at Bora Bora Island, in French Oceania, and sailed through the South Sea Islands to Australia, en route to England.
In a message published in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, on January 7, Mr. Long wrote: “Tragedy has overtaken us at Colombo: ‘Timi,’ the Tahitian lad is dead.
“The Idle Hour was ready to sail for Aden when ‘Timi’ went down with malaria, his fifth attack in three months. The attack, which caught him in a weakened state, developed into congestion of the lungs, and nothing could save him. He was given oxygen for five days, 18 hours a day.
“Thousands of miles from home, I feel very sad without ‘Timi.’ I loved him like a brother. We had been through thick and thin together. He was my man Friday.
“The Idle Hour seems lonely without the Tahitian boy singing his native chants.