WALK TO THE CAPE
Our Own Correspondent.)
Man Wears Out 46 Boots
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LONDON, July 9. Jock Seott, of AVoking, failing to land a job in London, thought ho would walk off his disappointinent. Ho is just back from tho walk. It began in 1933 and was 15,000 miles long. Twenty-three pairs of boots, cast into the gutter as their service ceascd, mark Jock's trail to Capetown. • Just to make the walk more than a whim ho took with him -a letter froin Sir lan Hamilton to tlie Capetown llighlandcra. Tho answer came back wiili him to Soulhampton yesterday, flis worst time? — When ho took a 1000-mile wrong turning. Tbe Abyssinian War stopped his trck south at Wadi Halfa. He had to make a detour. His most exciting moinent? — When he lost his false teetk in the Libyan Desert. An Arab policeman, who saw him hunting around, gave cliase, He thought) Jock wa* % spy. .• N (
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 6
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