Dwight Long

Now In European Waters

THE American lad, Dwight Long, who navigated his little 32-feet sailing boat Idle Hour from the United States across the Pacific to Sydney, and left Sydney over a year ago for the East Indies, has found his way across the Indian Ocean and through the Suez Canal. He arrived at Ramsgate, England, on July 18.

He wrote to the editor of the P.I.M. from aboard the Idle Hour on May 23, when he was “dodging mines off the coast of Granada, Southern Spain,” and

his letter was posted from Gibraltar.

By now, he is safe in the Thames, with only the Atlantic to cross before he com pletes the circumnavigation of the globe.

Mr. Long says that he greatly misses his Tahitian companion, Timi, who died in Colombo from fever.

Somewhere in Asia, Mr. Long met Mr.

William Albert Robinson, who also is famous for long-distance voyages in a

small boat. Mr. Robinson, in Ceylon, bought a 75-tons cargo vessel and con verted her into a well-appointed and com fortable cruising yacht. He and his wife had commenced a leisurely voyage, via Suez, Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pan ama, to Tahiti, w T hen he was suddenly called to U.S.A. He left his new ship in Aden, and he will rejoin her there pre sently and go on to Tahiti.

“Two of Mussolini’s bombers have zoomed over our heads," says Mr. Long.

“I can see a steamer in tow probably hit a mine, or something. On my star board bow is a brilliant picture. The blue Mediterranean, is in the foreground; and then the rugged foothills along the Spanish coast; and then, at the back, the towering Sierra Nevadas, their snow capped peaks in sharp profile against a cloudless sky."

Mr. Dwight Long (left) with Mr. W. A.

Robinson, inspecting the latter's yacht at Aden, Southern Arabia.