Arizona republican., 1901-02-28
SLOCUM AND THR SPRAY.
Famous Globe-Glrdler and His Little
 Boat at Buffalo.

The nautical adventures of the Vik- ings of old, which have been celebrated in song and In story, are overshadOwed in importance by the voyage of Capt. Joshua Slocum around the world In sloop 36 fest 9 inches in length over all, and of nine tons net burden, says the Buffalo Express. The solitary Yankee sea king cruised 36,O00 miles in all oceans. ten times the distance claimad for Viking ship. It was the first and only attempt to circumnavi- gate the globe alone in small boat. The extraordinary character of the voyage can only be guaged by those who have d voted their lives to sailing the seas and know its varying moods. and they one and all regard 1t as a most remarkable exploit.
 Capt. Slocum and the boat in which he. made the around-the-wor voyage Will be at the Pan-American exposition next summer. The craft will ride upon fhe waters of Park lake, where it may be viewed or boarded by exposition vis- itors. It will prove great attraction.
 The intrepid Yankee globe-circler is a slender man, not above the medium height. bald on the outside of his head. but not on the inside. which is packed full of wit and sense. He has blue eyes. which are frank and direct. He pos- sesses a dry humor which is very amus- ing. That he is daring and plucky is attested by his long and solitary trip.
 The boat In which Capt. Slocum made his voyage Is named the Spray. Ii was originally a fishing boat. The voyage was attenued with an unus- ual incidents. The first occurred after the Spray lad left her first port ,of call. the Azores. The captain had eaten freely of plums and native cheese and they did not agree win him. He was attacked with cramps. He double- reefed the mainsail, and, with a full jtb. put the sloOp on her course. lashed the wheel, and went below to the cab in. where he rolled in agony on the noor Becoming delirious, he imagined that a strange man came on board, and announced himself as "one of Columbus crew." and guided the craft. 4 blow came up and the Spray ran like deer.
 When the captain came to his full senses and was able to go on deck she was holding true 10 her course. She had made 90 miles during the night in the rough sea-
 The Spray went through the very dangerous Straits of Magellan. whose shores are strewn with wrecks and in- habited by pirates, without accident, and after some weeks consumed in the passage was driven by furious gale southward and thence eastward and into the straits, necessitating a second passage.
 landing place with the most cordial hospitality, for his name was known the world around among ssafaring men and the cabled news of his progress went before him. In Samoa, Mrs. Rob- ert Louis Stevenson visited him. In Tasmania Lord Hampden was a call CT. At the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner saw him. A pass over the Cape railways permitted him to pay his respects to President Kruger of the Boer republic. While he was cruising the Spanish American war broke out, and his first intimatlon of the fact was gleaned from the Oregon, which signaled Are there any Spanish men-Of-w war about?'' Capt. Slocum knew of none being In that locality. He replied: None, but let us keep together for mutual protec- tion"