MODERN: CRUSCE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1933, Page 6

MODERN: CRUSCE

YOUNG MAN’S ADVENTURE.

LONDON, May 8

An eighteenyear-old Robinson Crusoe and a modern Trader Horn were 3 landed by the liner. Dolius on docking after a. six months’ trip at Liverpool. The adventures of Frank Jones, ■ a bronzed young man, of 25, of Surrey, . took him . :to tJio same part- of the world Seven years ago he started trading among the islands, north or Australia. With two other young men, Jack Gattv, brother of Harold Catty, the American airman, who flew round the world, and David Sibroe, of Hull, lie set off from Thursday,. Island. on a trading trip to New Guinea. Their cutter struck a reef in a pale off Dutch New Guinea,, and when they eventually reached land they were confronted wit,l> miles of mangrove swamps. .“’We went for two- davs waist deep in mud,” ,Tones said. ‘‘At , last we struck a village of headhunters. One of the party fired nvey their heads and they ran away. Villa no, after yillage seemed to. kn.ow of. our presence, and when we arrived there thov took un the same threatening attitude. We plodded eu for ten davs, and revoked the small Dutch settlement .of Macula.” Jones and his friends at last reached Celebes Island, where .Topes hoarded the Dolius as a distressed British aeamam