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Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 December 1937Vol. VIII, No. 5

Wandering Yachtsmen

p. 33 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Honolulu, Dec. 3.

A FTER a prolonged cruise through the Tahitian and Marquesan Isles, Parley Van Wagoner and Harry G. Al bright, Americans, arrived here in Nov ember, 53 days out of Papeete, in their 38ft, ketch Mundeano. Leaving San Diego,

U.S.A., in April the pair planned a leisurely world cruise, but Mr. Van Wagoner has been forced to return to Los Angeles for a major surgical opera tion. Mr. Albright, a newspaperman, will remain here indefinitely.

They reported seeing in Papeete Capt.

Ernest Gilling, seasoned bearded New Zealand wanderer, in his yacht Valkyrie.