The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 14, 1954, Page 5

mount’s “Warpath,” a rous- or drama dealing with the ‘marauding redmen. But the p Soren looting and pil- ee eae eee a -__. sreuredey, Octoher 14, 1954 tL THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Raft And Lone Occupant Safe PAGO PAGO, American Samoa @—The balsa raft Seven Little Sisters, ons which 61-year-old Wil- liam Willis set out from Peru last June 22 with a parrot and a cat, was réported sighted yesterday 20 miles off Pago Pago, The governor of Samoa said he and a party would go out on the Manua, a telecommunications ship, and tow Willis to port, ending an odyssey of drifting on currents used by six Scandinavians on the raft Kon-Tiki seven years ago, When Willis bade goodbye to his wife Bess at Callao, Peru, and set forth on the Humboldt Current in his 35-foot, twin-masted craft, he said he expected his ocean wan- derings to cover around 11,000 miles' in eight months. 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