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Around the world with a tin clock* Joshua Slocum was unwilling to pay the fifteen dollars to have his chronometer cleaned and cal- ibrated. So instead he used his dollar "tin clock" and navigated with it for the next three years. Even today, not that many people sail alone left Boston in April 1895- it had never been done. All he had when he left was a dollar "tin clock!' some supplies thrown into the bottom of his home-made sloop, and the experience gained from forty years at sea When he returned after thirty-eight months, he received a hero's welcome and wrote a book that became required reading for a whole generation of schoolchildren. In the South Seas, he made a burglar alarm by placing car- pet tacks, business end up. around the deck In the middle of the night, there were shrieks of pain. The natives had stepped on the "burglar alarm" with their bare feet. This advertisement, prepared by Gulf Oil. a leading supplier of quality marine fuels and lubricants, is one of a series paying tribute to the great explorers of the sea. It is published in the interest of the ship- ping industry and those associated with it. GULF OIL TRADING COMPANY. NEW YORK. NY. USA.
