Show LONE NAVIGATOR ON LAST HOP OF LONG SEA JOURNEY french tennis player using small Gall boat in hia efforts to clr cum navigate the globe paris Gerb nult the french tennis placer nho became a navigator of the globe using a sailboat Is on the last lap of his jour ney which has taken him up and down the seven seas for two beirs he Is now somewhere in the south atlantic bearing due north from cape town via the island of st helena where napoleon passed his last years tn esble cven Gerb aults close friends anil they are very few are unable to e plain his ahling for solitude and long eca voyages far from civilization it Is ascribed by some to a hopeless love affair by others to financial reverses and by to deep seated my bagony amounting to a positive hatred or modern life lo 10 ties it lias even been reported recently that lie intends to ml e up hia permanent residence in an island of the south seas Geib nult was however alwain n lover of the fuei in his bouth he ched for ears in alnard and st malo on the breton coast the local fishermen acre his pals and from them he learned all they knew about seafaring the old nore the heroes of his boyhood reading he was an ins reader of books of travel and adventure even when he nas an engineering student in paris of exceptional strength and agility he made n name as a tennis player in the orld war he gulshen himself as an aviator after the war he played tennis and other sports tor some years and in 1923 started out on his day lone voyage across the atlantic from can nes to new lorl in bis book de scribing that voyage he told of sev oral occasions when steamers passed close and asked him if he needed aid he talks of these offers alth scorn as if they had doubt in his ability to navigate and overcome the perils of the sea that has been his attitude ever since toward hs fellow men ne prefers to tr nel alone he has no social bond on his last journey which he ex pacts to finish soon he vent through the panama canal and across the pa clue touching at scores of islands in polynesia thence across the indian ocean to the island of reunion where abd el kalm the former riff leader Is living in exile and to durban in south africa |