Glows With Pride"
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His "Poor Old Heart Glows With Pride"
The photograph of the US owned brig “Yankee” under full canvas on PlM’s cover in June stirred up some pleasant recol lections for Mr. A. Minshull, an elderly reader of Machans Beach, Cairns, Queensland.
“It made my poor old heart glow with pride,” he says in a note to PIM. “It is very like one of our old schooners, and it takes me back to dear old T.l. ( Thursday Island ) of 60 years ago, when, as a lad, I had many a trip on different ones.
“I was reared in Torres Straits and my father had a few luggers, but like a few others, he lost them in a cyclone. My childhood days in the islands were very, very happy, and I intend going back there shortly to end my days.
“I think there were about eight schooners all told. They were floating stations for their own luggers and never came to T.l. till about Christmas every year to lay up for a while. They were fed by two other smaller schooners from T.l.
“Some of these schooners were top sail, others fore and aft, and, my word, could they sail! Get ting a good breeze, no steamer could see which way they went.
“I have very pleasant recol lections of those good old days.”