Watermelon Smell Brings Nigger Out
STOWED AWAY WITH BIRD NEW YORK, August 27. When they were one day out on their way to New Zealand and the Antarctic, the crew of Commander Richard Byrd’s barque City of New York, discovered three stowaways, and transferred them all to the first vessel they met. So anxious was one negro of 20 to be a member of the expedition that he hid under the wing of a spare propeller and withstood the the ship’s fumigation, but capitulated when the aroma of watermelon from the crews’s mess was wafted liis way.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 9
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97Watermelon Smell Brings Nigger Out Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 9
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