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...once set eager watch for her, for the Lorraine Cross radioed that the shy Margaret Harold was really the motor trawler Girl Pat which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day, was outlawed by Lloyd's and was last seen at Dakar, French West Africa, three weeks ago (TIME, June...
...many rumors about the motive of Girl Pat's wild escapade were last week laid by Harry Stone, her onetime mate, who was left behind in the Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind...
...meanwhile, was rolling slowly down the African Coast. She went aground on Capo Blanco. The crew went ashore for assistance, returned to find thieves had stolen all their food and clothing. Somehow they floated Girl Pat again. Last week they wallowed into Dakar, French Senegal, for supplies. The French port authorities debated nabbing her but decided to wait for definite orders. Before these came, Girl Pat slipped out of the harbor in the teeth of a gale. Behind her in the hospital she left her mate, who said nothing...
...They" told Sailor Roosevelt wrong: first clipper to reach San Francisco was the Samuel Russell in 1850. *Route: San Francisco: Macao; Hongkong; Fenang; Delhi; Bagdad; Cairo; Athens; Rome; Marseille; Seville: Tangier, Morocco; Dakar: Senegal: Natal: Brazil: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Miami; Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; San Francisco...
Both Over African Jungles and Speak to the Earth are frivolous works compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet. The travelers saw some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration...