Show English Tars Emulate Drake Daring Seas on Adventure Trip Captain ilkin Wilkin Gathers Fourteen Sturdy for V Voyage oya e of Thrilling Thrilling Thrilling Thrill Thrill- ing Possibility LO LONDON DOX Dec 26 By A. A P. P P.- P. Sailing over the see seas In the wake of ot Drake and In a schooner hardly larger than the one commanded b by that sea rover Is la the feat to be at attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted by a a. group of ot adventurous twentieth century Englishmen An expedition of fourteen en men under command of ot Captain Norman zorman Wilkin of the Royal naval re reserve erv ill sail san In the three Med fri frigate frigate fri trl- gate Marian arlan on New Years Year's day front from Appledore re the Devonshire port where Drake weighed anchor many y years ago Captain Wilkin will follow minutely minutely minutely mi mi- mi- mi the route of ot his illustrious count countrymen en around the dangerous Straits of ot Magellan and up the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast He Ife and his comrades seek to prove that adventure Is not entirely confined to the screen and the stage SEEKING ADVENTURE I Hundreds of or applicants were re received received received re- re b by Captain Wilkin for places on the Marian and he spent seVeral several sev seV- everal ev- ev eral weeks In choosing the best beet fourteen mariners from the many desiring to g go With a a. few tew exceptions exceptions the crew is making the trip entirely for tor adventure The mate a native of bt t Appl Appledore ore has spent his sixty years on the theseas theseas theseas seas and has never shipped on anything anything anything any any- thing but a sailing aSQUIni vessel essel The moving spirit of ot the voyage John Henderson Is an Englishman known in his country as an n ex ex- ex lie He has mapped much of ot Borneo and the islands south of India and China and has made many trips to little known parts of ot the world He lie will be bo on board boord the Marian Macian as chronicler Henderson wants to make a a. few tew stops atop at the tho cities which have sprung up along the coasts along which Drake sailed and he hop hopes to gather together some data on Drakes Drake's trip missing from the CAptains CAptain's captains captain's cap CAp- tain's tams log book Sails will trill serve erve us better than steam he ho said Time Is no Immediate immediate Im Im- im- im mediate object Our equipment willbe Willbe will willbe be modern enough to Include a 8 ph apparatus and I cam eras Ve We shall shan drop down the Bideford river on New Years Year's eve I as s-a British sailors sailed before and we may see you all nil again In five tive I years' years time |