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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned caveived instru
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
TUMORROW,We
the 21st December, 1907, at 2.30 P.M., at their Saléa Roomas, No. 8, Des Vocuk Road, corner of Ice flouse Street,
A LAROE ASSORTMENT OF JAPANESE CURIOS;
Comprising –
PIRET POYAUE
On Baturday, July
abips, carrying in all about
set sail from the Tags
covery down the west of Africa.
of
doc
The expedition was under the command
of Pardal,
bed, gave hiin power, ef life and death, and he asked who dispa'ed it.
oan Varco da Gama, of whom great things| Naturally, none dared do so, Unwittingly, were expected. For he, almost alone amonga "dubilessly, but with feigned alacrity, the mulle the navigators ôf his day and generation, bold neers went back to their duties. ... - the opinion that by that roule it was possible. to reach the ladies and the Spice Islands of the East.
But da Gama was not yet finished. Indeed, his next action caused morn dismay amongst the malcontents than all that had gone before.
Calling his officers together, he bide, ther deliver up to him their instruments of haviga- tion-their astrolabes, their compasses, and so forth. Then, when, he had them all in his possession, ha clear of the southernmost extremity of Africa, ["50) HURLED THEM INTO THE SKA, and that then, by changing his course to the east, he would presently reach the redo that exclaiming as he did so, it need no compass, presumably lay on the farther side of that conve God, henceforth. Pe shall direct the
media abipla coure,” ga bil {,tinent, and between it and India. -
Btarting with the assumption that the earth was round, and rot flat by no means unl FINE CARVED IVORY CARVINGS,versally accepted belief in those dayshe DRASS BUDOHAS, VASES, FLOWER POTS, SAIŠUMA and CLOISONNE argued that he had only got to keep on sailing WARÉ, CARVED CHERRY WOOD South until such time as he found himself TABLES, STANDS; MOTHER-O-PEARL INLAID PANELS, SILK-EMBROIDERED BED and TABLE COVERS, SCREENS,
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS)—As usual,...!
&c.
HUGHES & HOUGU,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 19th December 1907.
fio,
"SO THOUGHT'DA GAMA, * But bis opponents, and they were many argued otherwise. He and his crews, they said, were going to utter and sure destruction in a "South Frigid Zone," where frightful tempests raged continually.
One result of these differences of opinion was that an immense amount of interest war taken in the venture by the Portuguese people, who swarmed into: Lisbon in their sens-of thousands to see the expedition start.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the lering by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 23rd day of Decem ber, 1907, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of One Lot of CROWN LAND,
And brava sight it was they beheld. The at Causeway Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong, ships, two of 120 tons cach, and one of 75 for a term of 75 years, with the option of retons, were gay with basting, and their high newal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one
pooped decks were thronged with armed men. further term of 75 years.
the officers in burnished costs of mall, the mea in leather jerkins with steel breastplates Each ship carried oun ber of bombards" wide-mounted, shuit cautions throwing huge stone balls. But the crews bore no firearms only crossbows, spears, áxes, swords, javelium, and boarding pikes.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Iniand Lot Xo, 180 Registry No
LOCALITY.
Boundary Measurements.
K.K.
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Hongkong, 14th December, 1907.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Annual Rent,
Upit Price
[1095
'HE Undemigaed have received instructions
to sell by PBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
On
TUESDAY,
the 24th December, 1907, at 1 A.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street,
A QUANTITY or
JEWELRY,
ENGLISH
Comprising:- DIAMOND RINGS, GOLD CHAINS, BRACELETS, PINS, GOLD WATCHES,
BAZAAR NECK CHAINS and FANCY GOODS;
DOLLS
50 Chats to $19.50 Eacis.
POWELL'S
ALSO
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
Comprising
From the three main topmasti flew
TERRE ROYAL STANDARDS,
purple silk, with gold blazoning. The three mizen masts upbore the private scarlet flag of the Admiral; while on every one of the big square sails was the Cross of the Order of Christ, embroidered in crin son velvet
"Monks and friars in their quaint roben ming led amongst the sailors. And on the forecastle of each ship were six men in irons. There latter were murderers who had been condemned
10 death. But their sentences had been altered 10 one hardly less terrible. They were "in "be set aubore 'singly amongst the savages and candibals whom da Gama expected to meet If their lives were spared, well and good; they could be taken aboard again, and the experi- ment repeated elsewhere. If, on the other hand, they were killed and calen, well and good. also: there was
ONE DESPERADO LESS
in the world, and the rest of the members of the expedition would be e sabled 10 lake, warn ing in time, and thereby escape a similor fate. For five full months the vessels, travelled
NEW ENGLISH OVERCOATS, MACINTOSHES, HATS, SUITS OF south, being much delayed by contrary, CLOTHES, SEXTANTS, BINOCULARS, winds and by a region of calms-the modern M.CROSCOPES, SHOUTING BOOTS, “doldrums "--in the neighbourhood of the CLOCKS, BAROMETERS, GOLD CHRONOMETER by Amold. SURVEYOR'S equator.. At the end of that time da Gama, in LEVEI, and VALUABLE SINGLE STONE Purvance of bis plin, turred eastward, DIAMOND RING.
Catalogues will he issued. TERMS: AS Usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongking, 19th December, 1907. Trios
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions TG. DE CHAMEAUX, Eng., to sell by. PUBLIC AUCTION,
..ON'
FRIDAY,
the 27th December, 1937, at 11 AM, within his residence, Nr. 1, The Albany, THE WHOLE OF HIS
HOUSEHOLD JURNITURE,
THEREIN CONTAINED,"
Comprising
It soon became appaidu, Kuwever, that he had not made enough southing, for shortly after altering his course land was sighted dead ahead. They ran into an opening, which, they called St. Helena Bay, and stayed there for a while to refit and recuperate. They also captured a native, who was gathering wild honey, and who was not unnaturally,
FRIGHTENED NEARLY OUT OF HIS WITS. He was, however, eally pacified by the pre sent of a crimen cap and bells, together with a number of beads, and after having been ∙galed on board the flagship be departed inte the bush. A day or two afterwards many
other natives appeared, both men and women. The sailors started interfering, with the latter' a fight was the result, and da Gama came to
was made 蔡
BAZAAR ROOM SUITE, TEAKWOOD OVER the conclusion that it was time; a fresh start
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TAPESTRY COVERED, DRAWING
MANTEL, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, 'SIDE-
Accordingly, the ships stood out to sea once BOARDS and DINNER WAGGONS, more, and, when cleared of the land, sailed GLASS, CROCKERY and EP. WANE, south agaia. The weather grew colder and TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with BEVEL LED GLASS, SINGLE IRON BEDSTEADS stormer, and the sailors grumbled ominously, and REDDING MARR E-TOP WASH believing now that they were at length about STANDS, BOOK-SHELVES, &c, &c. &c. to enter that "South Frigid Zone," of which
Catalogues will be issued.
they had heard such terrible accounts. To quiet them da Gama altered his course to the eastward, and this time
On view on MONDAY, the 23rd instart. TERMSAs usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH. Auctioneers. Hongkong, 19 December, 1907.
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This may seem to us the act of a madman. But da Garvi knew what he was about. Very probably he had other private instruments, ol whose existence the others knew nothing: And, in any case, the astrolabes ned comprises of those days were so rudely constructed as to be of little real use, a ship's course being largely determined by the stars, by the what is known | in nautical phraseology as "dead reckoning,”"
and by sheer luck.
Anyhow, scarcely had he pronounced the fateful words, when the weather moderated. the ship's course was thereupon changed first to the aorthward, and then to the westward, with the result that land was presently sighted. A party was set ashore, on December 26th, Christ's Batal day, for which reason they called the newly discovered country Natal."
The expedition brought up in the mouth of a "pleasant stream, which the men christened the River of Mercy, but which is
NOW KNOW AS the tugela, and there they remained for two months to recuperate and repair. The halt was not called before it was needed. More than kavenly men
were down with scurvy. And one of the ships, the Saint. Michael, proved, on being careened, to-be so rotten in places that the sailors were able to poke hotes through her planking with their fingers, Da Gama, oh his attention being drawn to this, ordered her to be broken up, and her sound ambers used for the repair of the other two ships, from which we may infer that they were in a not so very much
better state.
1907.
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'TRIED TO WRECK THE SHIPS by treachery, and then to capture them by open
attack.
His plans were, however, frustrated; and da ama sailed away up the coast, touching at the time came to strike east again, across the 'several places for wood and water. At length Indian Occan to the wonders that lay beyond. A marble cross was set up at the furthest point both reached, and a solitary convict was left behind, doubtless much against bis will, to *hold the country for Portugal"
Then the vessels were dressed with, flags' tpmpets were sounded, a solemn Te Deum was chanted, and the expedition sailed forth. Soon, however, the breeze died away. They were becalmed in the doldrums. Their water ran short, their ment turged putrid. As a result, creased vinilence. Four priests died of the the tartible scurvy reappeared, and with in- malady during this stage of the journey, and of the common people not a few."
In fact, the expedition was in about' as bad May 20th, 1498, it reached the post and harbour state as it is possible to conceive of when, on
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THEY FOUND A GIVILISATION which, although differing in detail from that ta which they were accustomed, was superior to it in everything save only the arts of war. The voyagers were amazed at the splendour of the buildings, the rich dresses of the wealthy ti, John Street, Bedford Raw, W.C merchants, the jewels of their womankiud, the aqueducts for irrigation purposes, and at much else of Ori-pital life and custom that, they now baheld for the first time.
́ ́ Naturally, da Gama was overjoyed. 411 that Columbus had expected to find, but had not found, be bad discovered. Here, indeed, was the Bait of man's dreams, a-land of gold and silver, of spices and itki, poatis and diamonds. To arms, Portugal! This was a pries worth fighting for l
MARY EXCITING ADVENTURES,
HE CLEARED THE CAPA of Good Hope, although he did not sight it.
That the stormy weather continued indeed, it grew worse. Six saliqis were washed over board from one ship and drowned, and four from another. One of the masts of the Saint | 97) Michael was carried away, killing and wounde ing a number of her crew. To add to their which included the weikare by the King of Calicut, of da Gama himself, and the murder of troubles, 100, curvy broke out. FURS! FURSI FURS! This was the last - straw. „ The disease was many of his men, the shipi got away on No. unknown in Etiópe at that time, and the crewvember 201b, having stayed exactly six mouths. เพ่ VARIOUS SHAPES AND COLOURS,garded its advent among them as a direct The voyage home was marked by a series of visitation from Heaven, a punishment for their exciting adventures, including a determined predamptuousness. They broke into open attack by a pirate flotilla of low rafts covered mutiny. Da Gama, they said, would have to and disguised with branches of trees. return. If he did not they would throw bim overboard, and themselves sail the ships back 10 Portugal,
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Dere was a dilemma, indesd.'. To give in to the demands of the matineers meant atter
But the skill and daring of di Gama,was equal to all emergencies, and on September 18th, 1499, he cast anchor in the Tagasi zlth fifty-five of his officers and men, all that re- mained alive of the 240 that had yet out with
him.
rain, to them as wellwas 10 himsell. To uns
Thus was the East, linked to the West and force might, nay, probably would, only result In precipitating a catastrope. Da Gama had all Portugal want delitious with delight. To
VOILES. RECOURSE TO A STRA AORM. A us, and to our sons for ever they said, shall
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He pretended to acquiesco to the views of the malcontents, but firal, he explained, he must have the signatures of the ringleaders to a manifesto, a sort of round robin, setting forth the fact that in turning back he was acting under their orders Novelties in sequin AND LACE Alier some deliberation they agreed to this, and presently they descended ere at the tims, Into their commander's cabin in order leap pand their manses to the document vquestion, They were promptly seired in 11 ptár by da Gama, assisted by two officers, and put in freesi
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