, 1921-09-17

forced upon the ships crew BY tho
oid-time masters Of which noveiists
Ike TO write. He has participated in
near mutiny has been shlpwreck1d
and all OF the resi- of IL. And then.
when he returned TO America. he
wrote a proper ending to his youthful
adventures by winning tho hand OF
the beautiful daughter of Jack London
himself.
Deserts in Manila.
Until n year ago Abbot was in the
employ OF the Robert Dollar company
in Shanghai. He was wharf manaEer
for that concern. Prior to his arrival
IN Shanghai he had been a purser on
the Qunntice. which was washed
ashore in a South Sea. typhoon.
In 1919. when Park Abbot was Is
"A old. he set forth from his Oak
land home in search OF adventure on
the Pacific. He knew little when he
shipped out as an able seaman on an
American four-masted sailing vessel.
that his voyage and the c%onseque
adventures would bring him back to
his neighboring county. to London's
Valley OF the Moon Sonoma county
to a bride. a daughter OF the Pacific
coasts most noted adventurer.
Abbot. when but n short tine out on
his voyage on the big schooner, found
that life on a sailing vessel was not
all romance INT p~ieasurable adventure
His shipmates like himself were young
and IN many instances inexperienced
The skipper was of the old school,. Ra-
were sparse and poor, watches
arduous and long md It was nat
urai that ~disconrsnt should develop.
There was n near mutiny aboard ship
and on its arrival at Manila there
were many desertions.
One of those ~apprehended by the
police was Abbot. He was hal
I'd into court and prosecuted for
breach of contract. mttiny and what
not. II a only due to the fact that
ne was under & and not legally eiig-
bile to become a party in n binding
contract that he escaped. There might
nave been, however. a bit of sympathy
felt by the magistrate for the boy,
when the story of the shippers con
duct was told. Abbot was released.
Ship Goes on Rocks
1t was while in Manila h Abbot
first became connected with the Rob
Dollar company. He met the
manager and impressed him
10 hat he was hired to 90 to Java
the South Sea Stands as n purser
IN the chartered steamer Qunntice.
A few days out south from Manila
he Quantice encountered a South Sen
.yphoon. the kind that figures in
many novelists' stories. And the
luantice failed to weather II, because
II insufficient propeller strength and
ipeed and was blown off the safe and
proper course and cast on a rock !
coast off a little unknown trop-
cal island.
The preparations for rescue work
we're made in n driving typhoon. A
Inc was shot TO the shore and many
we're sen over It to safety, but eight
men were lost. hurled high in the air
~ the lurching ship as though shot
rom a bow. and drowned in the rough
when they fell. When the Guam
ice Jared loose, n was swept on
again toward the land, Abbot at the
moment of striking leaped for life and
anded safely as the steamer went to
pieces.
Abbot headed a relief party for the
stranded party into the Interior. A
quantity of supplies was brought to
shore and some canoes were pb-
aimed from the natives. When wealth
II and sea permitted the party pad
He'd to a neighboring island occupied
,y white men, and later were picked
IN by a passing steamer and returned
Manila 1t was then hat Abbot
TO Shanghai.
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