ROUND THE WORLD IN A CANOE.
(per press association.)
Auckland, October 12. H’M.S. Torch arrived from the Islands to-day.
She reports Mr Suxton, journalist, of ■Winnipeg, and Captain Voss, who undertook to voyage round the world in a canoe for 1000 dollars, arrived after 59 days at Penrhyn Island on the 28ih August. After sailing from Victoria (British Columbia) they experienced fine weather, and everything went smoothly. They purposed refitting at the Islands and thence proceed to Sydney, up the coast of Queensland, through Torres Strait, across the Indian Ocean, and by way of Suez, Malta, and Boca to London, proceeding thence to Halifax, on the Bast Coast of Nova Scotia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 October 1901, Page 4
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111ROUND THE WORLD IN A CANOE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 October 1901, Page 4
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