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Show Sailor Not Desperado That Author Pictured Ctipt. Alexander McLean, tlie notorious notori-ous sailor whose exploits are pictured in Jack London's "Sea Wolf," liait many luirrowinir experiences on tlia sea and escaped death miraculously many times, only to come to Ills dealli by accidental drownlnc in three feet of water at Vancouver, II. C. Ho hail anchored his ship and in crossing Iwo small bonis to reach the dock, slipped nnd fell, struck liis head on a gunwale gun-wale and drowned while stunned. lie was hy no means the iicKri'Ssivo rullian pictured hy London, lie coin-( coin-( plained Utterly In l'.Kl" about Ihe way London had maligned him. He expressed ex-pressed a hot desire to be In a position posi-tion some day to shunn'ml the author, and havlns him at sea, to put him through his paces In a way that he. hud never treated any num. Vancouver Van-couver I'rovlnce. |