THE OWNER OF PAMIR
From Sea-Cook to Captain Captain Gustav Erikson is the owner of the Pamir. When he was nine he was a cabin boy who could make excellent pea-soup. When he was 59 he owned twenty deep-sea sailing ships and could still make good pea-soup! If he leaves his island home near Finland to visit London he groans at the pea-soup he gets from the hotel chef. "I vish I could get down there for a few minutes," he mutters, "I would soon show him." He Never Has a Holiday On pea-soup and on ships he was reared. He says, "I love those ships. I have spent my life in them, and for them. When I go they go but when I stay, they stay. I will never be a steamship owner. I will keep on all the ships I can while I live. I never have a holiday because I look after them all personally. I don’t let others do anything
I can do myself. I have been a mate and a master as well as a cabin boy and cook. I have my ships brought home ta me whenever they have to lay up in Europe and I climb the rigging and go out on the yards myself, I see that they are free from rust, that the gear is good and the rigging sound." Good Luck, Sailorman And so let us hope that the Pamir will soon be able to join what the war has left of the white winged ships, so that the little old man on the island who likes pea-soup and never takes a holiday may still dream of his great white ships and smile
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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283THE OWNER OF PAMIR New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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