STRANGE . SEA. ROAD,
By Warren Ifednall
. Strange Sea Road (Cape, 10s. 6d.) is the story-of a recent voyage of the famous four-masted barque, ' C. B. Pedersen.' One of the last of her type; this Swedish ship'carries grain from Australia to Europe, and is used as a.traiming ground for candidates for the Merchant Service, who still must, in Sweden, have preliminary experience in sail. The crew consisted of twenty-five of these inexperienced apprentices and a few old seamen,- the' average' age being nineteen. The passengers were mostly writers and painters (art 'and craft as usual), and the author—a joirrnalist--faids good copy in the inevitable clashes of temperaments on a voyage which lasted lye months. Encountering bad weather at the Horn, the ' C. Et- Pedersen ' was forced to put about and take the seldom used South Seas route: Lost,. she wandered -through the coral seas, and then 'picked up the old tea-clipper route Westwards round the. Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic. They reached Gothenburg after sailihg 20,060 miles. ThO author tells his story well, with a minimum of the romancing usually associated with the works of landsmen who go sailing in windjammers.
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