Hsitor To Rapa
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K Sydney in October was a 43year old Englishman who was on his way to fulfilling a 20-year
i ambition—exploring and photo
aphing exotic Rapa, in French :eania. Anyway, that is what the dney papers said.
His name is Jim Fillylove.
Back in the 30’s Rapa, a pint ;ed, seldom-visited island just on e edge of the Tropics, was iscovered” by some wandering
chtsman and enthusiastically
scribed to the world as a Mecca r Men. ft was supposed to have a dozen Uing females for every male and ere was nothing for any whit© m to do, once he got there, but sit about and be waited upon by rgeous native Dorothy Lamours.
Naturally, it at once became the tibition of every wandering chtsman to pay a call—and many them did until the French got agh and closed it to Europeans.
Mr. Fillylove is sailing to Rapa th a friend who won an Irish sreepstakes and bought a 40-ft. at. We can hope that all their pers are in order, and that they -ve a good story to tell the thorities in Papeete who, with od reason, are suspicious of any chtsman who has as much as ard of Rapa.