New Magellan to Round Horn; Wife Going, To

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 18

New Magellan to Round Horn; Wife Going, To

WASHIN GTON, Sept, 7.— A twen-tieth-century Magellan and a comely Mrs Magellan will set sail here next month on a research cruise 'round the Horn. • Capt. Robert Muir, late. of ihe British army in India and Borneo, and Mrs Muir, until recently a Washington business woman, are equipping a 110foot ketch and gathering a crew of 10. young seamen and seven natural scientists for their voyage along the xoute traveled by Ferdinand Magellan, the sixteenth-century. Portuguese navigator.Theirs will be the first natural' scientific study undertaken in mauy years of the region around Cape Horn. The Smithsonian Institution* is lending support. It may send along one of its experts on marino life to study and colleet fish and other creatures of the deep. Negotiations are under way ffor other research ' organizations, 'both in and outiside the Federal Government, to participate in making . oceanographic surveys, collections of* birds and animals and a picture log of the voyage. The cruise will require. seven to eight months. In addition to the usual paraphernalia carried by coliectors, the ketch, the Normonaywill be. equipped with a sonic depth- 5 .der with which a continuous record w il bo made of tho waters through the -'.traits of Magellan. • "There have been no aceurate chartings of the waters around' Cape Hdrn in more than 100 years," Captain Muir declared. The Normona will be the modern equivalent of the old windjammer naval training ships, since ' the ten young huskies in the crew, most of them Tecently out of college, will study navigation and other naulieal courses in addi,tion ,to helping with the research work of the expedition. And Mrs Muir expects to teahh some of them typing and shorthand whenever she can get them down out of the rigging. Captain Muir plans to sail Oct. 15, going through the Panama Canal, down the west cbast of South America, around the Horn and back up the east eoast. The expedition also expects to Eail about 2000 miles up the Amazon river. A Negro boxer was to fight a heavyweight champion. When the coloured man reached the ring it was noticed that he hung back. "It's all right, Sam," said Iiis second, ' 'just say to yourself, T^m goirg to beat that fellow,' and you '11 win." "That's no goocl, boss," replied Sam. "I know what a liar I am."