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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1959Vol. XXX, No. 2

"Narrow" Escape

p. 121 · Read in the full issue

[?]e Says It Was No "Narrow" Escape

at irascible crocodile ter Mr. G. M. Rio, having

lined the paragraph about

in the June “PIM”, writes iy that he never regarded absence from the Busama \sion and fire as “his west escape”. He em ises that he left the ship, ewak Harbour (after travel in her for some days) at 25 minutes before she blew ” he says, in a quaint argu ' “I walk across a road a ninutes before a car passes I miles an hour, that isn’t now escape.” invites the writer of the jraph to go crocodile-shoot oith him in the swamps of :a Gulf. able your acceptance of a free, one-way crocodile ling trip,” he says, yearn . “Make it ‘Collect’. I would y pay the cost of the cable-