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THE CHINA MAIL,
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CAPTAIN COOK ENTHUSIASTS NEW LIGHT ON NAVIGATOR
AN IMMORTAL
:
toric ground the appearance of an English parkland, and poered closely at the Inscription carved at the base of the central monument:
Was
Captain Cook landed here, 28th April, 1770. This monument erected by the Honourable Thomas Holt, M.L.C., A.D. 1870. Victoria Regina. The Earl of Belmore, Govr
An Historic Stream
A few yards to the east of the проп a tiny monument I came stream that was trickling down from the tree-ahaded heights to, the sea, and perceived with something like' a thrill the legend engraved on a
Jarrow. An interesting train- Included in the valuable collection copper plaque sat in the rock: stream Captain carrying vessel was launched from of Cook relics that are to be seen "From this small the Wallsend shipyard of Messrs. in the Sydney Museum is a first Cook took water for his ship Swan, Hunter and Wigham edition copy of Boswell's "Account "Endeavour."" What were the Richardson, Ltd. The vessel, of Corsica: With the Journal of a gallant Captain's words? "... I which was christened "Seatrain" Tour to that Island," and on the sent a party of men ashore in the by Mrs, Brush, wife of Mr. fly-leaf is the autograph of Boswell morning to the place where we last Graham M. Brush, vice-president himself, with an Inscription In- landed to dig holes in the sand, by which means, and a small stream, and treasurer of the Oversens timating that the book was pre- they found fresh water sufficient to Railways, Inc., New York, has sented to Captain Cook immediately been specially designed and con- previous to his departure on one of water the ship."
The gay cicade were chirruping structed for the Overseas, Rail-his three celebrated voyages to the ways, Inc., to carry loaded train South Seas. This discovery, which noisily in the cropped grass as 1 cars between Havana and New I made during a recent journey made my way back to the jetty, and Orleans. The 92 freight cars through Australia and New Zealand, through the fir trees I could dis- which constitute the cargo will be led me to a fresh perusal of corn the shadowy forms of week-end carried in the hold, on the lower | Boswell's "Life of Dr. Johnson," In Campers who were putting up their deck, on the upper deck, and on which I was very interested to come tent for the night on ground which the superstructure aft of the upon the following description of must undoubtedly have felt the hatch. Four double rows of rails his meeting with Cook on the morn- tread of "the celebrated circum-
|navigator."! are laid on the upper and seconding of April 3, 1776:
But for a lively, compact, and decks and the tank top, and also I gave him (ie., Dr. Johnson) an! on the aft part of the superstruc- account of a conversation which straightforward account of the voy- ture deck. The cradles, for their had passed between me and Captain age one must turn to the "Narra- respective decks, will be lifted Cook, the day before, at dinner at tive of the Voyages Round the performed by Captain into the hold opening with the sir John Fringle's (then President World, cars resting on them, the whole of the Royal Society), and he was Cook," by Andrew Kippis, D.D., being maintained in position by much pleased with the conscientious F.R.S., first published by Strahan in mechanically operating rest bars. accuracy of that celebrated circum- 1788, nine years after the death of The vessel, built to the highest navigator, who act me right as to Cook, and for long accepted as the class at Lloyd's, is 427ft 6in, in many of the exaggerated accounts standard life of the navigator. Dr. length between perpendiculars, given by Dr. Hawkesworth of his Kipple, while omitting nothing that 62ft. 3in. in breadth, with depth voyages. to second deck of 16ft. 3in. For rapid heading and discharging of the cargo of cars there is one large hatchway 46ft. 8in. by 53ft. Each car to be shipped is run on to a cradle, which is then lowered bodily through the hatch to the hold, where the car hauled off the cradle into position along the rails.
7,000 Tong
la relevant in the life of his hero, contrives to present a vivid por- Boswell's, Presentation Copy Continuing his account of the trait of Cooks as man and explorer, same meeting, Boswell ingenuously without indulging in flights of fancy remarks: "I told him that while I or overloading his narrative with was with the captain I caught the those heavy redundancies of many enthusiasm of curiosity and adven- eighteenth-century writers which ture, and felt a strong inclination to have seen picturesquely described by "slabs of circumambient verbiage." 80 with him on his next voyage," one of Mr. Punch's learned clerks as out Johnson, who, standing aloof in
He sets down in perfect propor-] giant ignorance, thought little could
tion, in just perspective, and in rich we learnt from such voyages, was not carried away by "Bozzy and melodious prose, the facts of
general, grand
and
indistinct
ase almost under the shadow of
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Cook's life and discoveries as they 7,000 tons deadweight. The pro- pelling machinery consists of
notion of a voyage round the world." are set forth with such a masterly triple expansion engines supplied
The question that filled my mind (yet unself-conscious) economy of by the Wallsend Slipway and En-lang after seeing this interesting language in the logs and journals of gineering Co.
tion." Kippis writes in the spirit of Mr. T. E. Thirlaway, chairman volume was whether this identical the "Endeavour" and the "Resolu- of Swan, Hunters, proposing copy which now reposes, with other Cook himself, and one rises from a "Success to the "Seatrain" and her equally interesting relics, in a glass perusal of this contemporary bio- mind of the great sea captain' the Owners," said that although train- Thomas Woolne heroic status of graphy with a picture clearly in the to carrying vessels had been pre-Cook on the law, outside the Sydney bicentenary of whose birth at vionsly built, the "Seatrain" was
Museum was presented to the ex Marton, Yorkshire, is being cele- original, as she was the first ves- sel built in which the trucka, in-plorer by Boswell on the very occa brated throughout the world.
S. F. A. Coles in "T. P's Weekly." stead of being run into the vessel.sion he describes!" would he lifted from the shore
On a Saturday afternoon some (Note: To-day's "China Kail". into a large hatchway. The ves
was to inaugurate a tivo years later, with a keen wind contains a picture of these cele
1. remember, straight brations. See Art Section.] trade between Havana and New blowing, as. Orleans, which was due to the across the bay from the Southern enterprise and initiative, of Mr. Ocean and the far Antarctic, I Brush. They all wished that en- stepped on to the sandy foreshore of Kurnel, an outer suburb of terprise every success.
Mr. Thirlaway presented Mrs. Sydney, from the launch-appro Brush with a pair of silver candle-priately named the "Captain Cook" sticks, made in Sheffleld in 1782.which had ferried. me over the Mr. Graham Brush, responding, choppy waters of Botany Bay to the said the builders had done mar-apce where. the navigator had first
sel
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Friday, 26th October.
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Wednesday, ard November.
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PANAMA MARU, Thursday, 1st November.
CALCUTTA- Singapore, Pouang and Rangoon
the owners judgment in coming right and proper that I should make to them was justified. They were my pilgrimage to this historic starting a new enterprise in at-corner of the great island contin tempting to solve a problem of ent: a country, as one of her poets transportation by combining the has said, features of the railway with a ship. Swan, Hunters played a very great part in that, and he was confident they would succeed with that vessel.
Mr. W. H. Campbell, of Messrs.
.... without antiquities, with one, And only one, poor spot of classic
ground,
That on which Cook Arst landed. On my return from Queensland, therefore, where I had spent some
J. M. Campbell and Son, Glasgow, time in the bush, and where, on my proposed "The Builders."
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
way. down the coast in an old in- ' terstate cargo boat, I had observed the stark outline of Mount Warning, which was sighted from the deck of the "Endeavour and given its The C.F.S. R.M.S. "Empress of vivid title by Cook on a June morn Canada" from Hong Kong on Octo-Ing in 1770, I had taken the first ber 8. left Yokohama on October 11 opportunity to pay tribute at the at noon, and is due at Vancouver place where, a very great English-,- to-day.
Aman had claimed for his country one The M.V. "Toronto" (D. & Co.) is of her richest Colonial possessions. expected here from New York via I had walked. for twelve miles port on Oct. 13, and will be dia across the sand dunes to. La Perouse patched hence for New York via (where an obelisk and a plot of Suez at Noon to-morrow,
ground given to France by the The B. I. . "Canara" left Sin-Australian Government commemor gapore for this port on Oct. 14 ates the visit on January 26, 1788, at a.m., and is due here to-morrow of the famous French explorer who morning.
stepped ashore from the "Astrolabo"
2
The P. & O. ... "Karmala" left only to vanish from the knowledge Singapore for this port on Oct. 16 of man a few weeks later in the wide at 7 am and is dua here to wastes of the Pacific) and had morrow at about 7 a.m.
found the launch tossing in the The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of grey waters at the end of the jetty Russia" left Manila yesterday, at preparatory to making her last 4 p.m. and is dus, at Hong Kong journey of the day. to-morrow at 9a.m. She
The Three Obelisks
SEATTLE, MARU TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Shanghai, and Vancouver, B.C., via Shanghai, shine burst through the hurrying VICTORIA, SEATTLE,
QALEREYA:Thursday, 25th October."
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Tuesday, 23rd October.
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will leave here for Victoria and The gilttering Australian sun Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama at clouds as I stepped on to the beach, noon on October 24.
shedding a mellow glow on the The B. L. 8.8. "Bennevis" from three granite obelisks that mark Lelth, Middlebro', Antwerp, London the plot where Cook, Banks, and and Straits loft Singapore for this Solander walked and talked on that port yesterday, and is dus to arrive "serene afternoon of April 28, bare on October, 25.0
1770, with the strident unintelli The C.F.S. R.M.S."Empress of gible cries of the Indians" "echoing Asia" left Vancouver for Hong in their ears from the, scrub," an Kong, via Japan ports and Shang the little 870-ton bark En hal, on October 11, and is dus bere which had called halfway on October 20, She will sail for world into the vast Manila on October 30, at 5 p.m. waters of the Southern Ocon
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