Writer - Yachtsman-
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With Accent On Writer!
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Nov. 9,
A TINY YACHT, the Walrus, owned bv the U.S.A. writer Mr. Robert Mills (whose pen-name is Spencer Stow all), arrived at Papeete in October.
Mr. Mills started out alone from Los Angeles on a voyage around the world.
At Honolulu, at the request of the French Consul, he took on board a Tahitian named Tina, who was one of the emer gency] crew signed on the yacht Gressida at Tahiti. He had been stranded in the Hawaiian Islands, and Mr. Mills trans ported him to his native country.
During his voyage Mr. Mills found time to write 700 letters which he mailed on his arrival at the post office at Pa peete, Awaiting him, at Papeete, were 1,000 letters!
After a short sojourn in the Society Islands he will continue his solitary voyage to the westward. The Walrus is reputed to be the smallest sea-going yacht in the world.