600 -Mile Ocean Trip In
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Native Canoe
A N adventurous 600 mile voyage in a native dug-out from Port Moresby, Papua, to Australia by Messrs J. J.
Laverack and A. R. Marshall ended abruptly in mid-September when the canoe was wrecked on a coral reef off the Queensland coast. The two young men managed to get ashore at the Lockhart River Mission Station and later were taken to Cairns in the steamer Wandana.
They left Port Moresby with the dug out laden with native spears, tomahawks, etc., and planned to sell these curios in towns along the Australian coast. After live days’ paddling they reached the Bar rier Reef and then ran into mountainous seas. Most of their cargo and belongings were washed overboard, before they struck the reef.