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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 8

Message From Port Sudan

p. 113 · Read in the full issue

Port Sudan

* lM’s” shipping friends have my of manifesting them zs in the oddest places. In r uary we received a letter ed in Port Sudan, from Mr.

Reed, formerly of Papua, s aid: i October 16, I noticed a yacht enter Port Sudan our under full sail and con -7 to local regulations. (She without a pilot). She was fly the Australian flag which good to see again, so after had anchored I went along offer the usual liquid itality. lagine my surprise when now bald head of Ken le, whom I had known when worked for a few years for ralasian Petroleum Co. in Gulf of Papua, come up out be cockpit. The yacht was ng, with owner-skipper Ted r , in command and three ralian crew members. She i a world cruise. Ted was an old P-NG skipper, long re my time, and we >ped tales of the islands I the small hours, saw the yacht and crew n a few weeks ago—this in Naples, where they were ng up after a rough trip le Mediterranean. 7 PlM’s are read and en -1 here also by Mike and :y Eland, who talk of moon picnics, etc., in the Gil and Ellice Islands Colony, •e Mike was Harbourmaster.