Word: camargo
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...gunboat Sacramento sailed from Cocos Island to Balboz, C. Z. with three castaways discovered last fortnight by Julius Fleischmann (TIME, Nov. 2), who sailed away in the opposite direction on his yacht Camargo. The castaways- Elmer J. Palliser, Paul Stackwick, Gordon Brawner-were in fair health, but fat and flabby from their six-month diet of coconuts and wild...
Cocos Island is an uninhabited spot of jungle in the Pacific, fabled rendezvous of pirates, 500 mi. southwest of Panama. There last week paused the yacht Camargo, carrying Julius Fleischmann, yeast scion, his wife & two small children and three friends on a two-year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted...