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Strange trips round the world are the latest craze of adventure-seekers. tewer than a score of daredevil globe trotters are endeavouring to accomplish
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the feat and each is striving to set up a record in originality and achievement.
Half-way across the Pacific are a man and his wife who set out from Plymouth a few months ago in a small ketch scarcely bigger than a rowing boat; seraewhere in the Sahara is a man on a bicycle who bopes to circle the earth and be back. Subot now. home again by a year next Christmas. Hongkong lugs.....
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And dotted here and there across cons tinents and oceans are other unorthodox | Bhall Transports globe-trotters, each satisfying his love of Star Farnes......... adventure in equally strange ways
Some are singing their way round the world-carolling in foreign cities and queer out-of-the-way villages for a low shillings to carry them another stage of their hazardous journey-others are work. ing their passages, doing an odd job here and there and setting off on their travels again the moment work begins to stato.". Of all the amazing adventurers none is more remarkable than a Scotsman, Robert M'Crae, who is attempting the world trip on a pair of roller skates!
Starting out from London ten months ago, he has aiready crossed the borders of China. Up to date he has used ten pairs of skates. And he estimates that before his journey is ended he will require at least thirty pairs more!
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A few years ago a world tour was looked upon as the particular pleasure of the well-to-do. For anyone to attempt it without all the resources of wealth at his disposal-n yacht, a fast motor car, or at least a railway ticket-was to run the risk of being thought a madman.
But to lay distance has lost much of its significance. Empty pockets are no bar to a modern glabe-trotter providing his optimism is at par. And the man who has a stout pair of boots on his feet and a tongue in his head to ask the way need not bother himself about time-tables.
STRANGE STUNTS.
Never before in history have so many queer attempts on the conquest of the globe been launched as have come to light this year.`
Rowing boats and ketches that as ordi- nary man with reasonable care for his akin would not have used to cross the Channel have found plenty of adventur. ers who have not hesitated to head them across the Atlantic. Even a canoe has been used for the start of a world tour in one ifatance.
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One of the most gallant world adven tures of all began only a few days ago with the saling from Totnes, Devon, of the lifeboat Blizabeth and Blanche. For the next three years this tiny vessel, manned only by four men, will cruise round the world in order that ber crow may test for themselves the conditions under which shipwrecked seainer can exist.
Altogether she will voyage something like 38,000 miles. No provisions other than hard tack"-ship's biscuit, choco- late, condensed milk, and tinned meat and vegetables--have been taken aboard. There is no galley, but the crew will be able to prepare hot food and drink on a primus stove.
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There is nothing vainglorious about the voyage; it originated with the desire to ascertain, the seaworthiness of a upon which the lives of ocean travellers -may-depend.Captain George Hitchens, who is in command, got his inspiration for the trip from the wonderful journey of 21 days made in two open boats by the survivors of the ill-fated Trevessu,
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Another ocean wanderer is Captain H Pidgeon, who has just received the Blue Water Medal from the Cruising Club of America for the most remarkable achieve- ment in deep-water navigation during the past hve years,
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Setting off alone, he sailed a 30-foot yawl round the world without a mishap. In fact, his most exciting adventure was when a woman came aboard at Natal and wished to share his cruise. But Captain Pidgeon politely declined her request, put her ashore, weighed anchor, and set sail.
Now he has just set off on another ocean tramp with only a few books for
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While Englishmen are well to the front in the present fashion for crazy voyages, other countries are also catching the fever. Three Danes, including Captain Niels Ventegodt, are at present pulling a 25ft. racing ski up the coast of France on their way to India.
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During the past four years no fewer than 25 globe-trotters have set out to walk round the world. One couple, Mr. and Mira Lo Roux, the South African walkers, who started out from South Africa in 1922, havą, now arrived in London
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Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Egypt, another journey, this time leaving the Italy, Switzerland, France,' Belgium, States by the Atlantic and going through Holland, and part of England-a distance the Panama Canal.
of 7,040 miles.
Over 2,000 women have volunteered to Still another couple who are embarking make the trip with him. But the adven- on the great adventure of a world tour are Mr. and Mrs. G. Murray, who claim turer thinks that the trip holds quite to be England's tallest cyclists. They are enough risks as it is! looking for two partneri to join them.
During his former voyage be encounter- ed three burricanes, during which moun- M. Gerbault, the lawn tennis player and tainous seas almost engulfed his tiny ves navigator, who some time age crossed the sel and wrecked much of her gear. Two- Atlantic from Gibraltar to New York
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