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londona Lon dons bankers in oakland despairing of his safety recently recorded the mortgage against his home at glen ellen which was drawn last april iu in order that the adventurous writer could obtain funds with which to fit out the snark it was understood that the mortgage was to be held without wl chont being recorded as long as londona Lon dons safety seemed assured the action ot of the bank was taken as that its officers feared he had met disaster jack london left hilo hawaii on october for tahiti of the society islands ou on his voyage around the world for the womans comans home companion in his littlee litt leh etch rigged boat the snark ile he should have reached tahiti by the first of december and it was feared that sonic some serious accident had befallen him with london in the snarls Snark were his wafe tames V who is captain martin johnson the engineer one sailor and two japanese servants london intends to spend seven years on 01 his voyage around the world describing for the womans comans home companion the life and customs and countries of the strange people he meets from tile the society islands he expects to touch at samoa tasmania new zealand australia new gill guinea nea then up through the philippines to japan korea and china and so on to india after this is to come europe the atlantic coast of america and san francisco on again in via the horn the snark is forty five feet ait oit on the water line weighs thirty tons and has an auxiliary gas ien engine ine which getting out of repair caused the delay that has occasioned so much worry the engines are now being overhauled at Pap Pa elti the boat as or Iglo nally planned was to cost she actually cost about before she left san francisco six men months late the terrible increase in in cost being due to the earthquake and fire I 1 i and to the subsequent scarcity of I 1 labor |
