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Show Sailor Not Desperado That Author Pictured Capt. Alexander McLean, the notorious notori-ous sailor whose exploits are pictured in Jack London's "Seji Wolf," had many harrowing experiences on the sea and escaped death miraculously many limes, only to come to his death by accidental drowning In three feet of water nt Vancouver, B. C. He had anchored his ship and in crossing two small boats to reach the dock, slipped and fell, struck his head on a gunwale gun-wale and drowned while stunned. Hi' was by no means the aggressive ruflian pictured by London, lie complained com-plained bitterly in 1007 about the way London had maligned him. He expressed ex-pressed a hot desire to be in u position posi-tion some day to shanghai the author, and having him at sea, to put him through his paces In a way Hint he had never treated any man. Vancouver Van-couver Province. |