NEPTUNES OF THE SEA.
“ The sea does not offer terms to | those who have business upon it" I (says George Blake in John o’ Lonj don’s Weekly). “ The sea is utterly I inscrutable, utterly indifferent, and men venturing upon the sea take their lives in their hands. That is why the challenge of the sea to adventurous man is irresistible; that is why stories of the sea are the best stories in the world; that is why the mysteries of misadventure at sea are the deepest and darkest and most fascinating mysteries of all. What happened to the Waratah? How deep lies the aeroplane of Nungesser? And where on the wastes of the Atlantic does the | Frenchman’s body ‘ welter to the parching winds ’ ? How came it that the Marie Celeste was found abandoned near the Azores in 1872, and never a word of her crew and passengers from that day to this? Where in the Tasman Sea rest gallant Hood and Moncrieff? A man may brood endlessly over such questions.”
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 230, 29 March 1928, Page 2
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170NEPTUNES OF THE SEA. Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 230, 29 March 1928, Page 2
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