MYSTERY ISLANDS.
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Stories of Diamonds and during the latter part of the sigh
Dogs.
аге likely before long to learn, more of the islands, says William J. Makin in the Manchester Gauntius writ ing from Capetown.
There
American explorers seem par-
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Sir Sydney (now 'Lord) Olivier years ago sheep were landed at great southern continent. Some presided at a lecture at the India Office in February Kerguelen, but did not thrive in which Professor Base gave owing to attacks from the wild an absorbing account of the latest dogs that infest the place. The developments at the Calcutta Re dogs, when hungry, killed the search Institute.
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They lie south of the Cape of Good Hope. Washed by the foam of the Antarctic Sea, cold, bleak, and dusolate, they are un- known excapt to a few hardy whaling men and seal hunters. It is when the stout little whalers coma pitching over the heavy sheep and ate them. Sailors who Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and seas into Table Bay that one have bean to Kerguelen tell of Mr. Bernard Shaw eulogising bears strange talk about the packs of dogs descending from Professor Base's efforts declared mystery islands of the south, the peaks and attacking sea eleif anybody had an idea that In- With the fames of strong African phants, seals, and other sea beasts. dians were an inferior race in- tobacco hazing an old timbered The island, which is 90 miles tellectually they only had to read roof and the fiery Capa brandy long, lies right in the track of Professor Bose's descriptions of being lavishly drunk, the men soms sailing vessels on the voy-extraordinary investigations. He who weather these southern seas age to Australis. Many a fine was of opinion that Sir Sydney all the year round tell stories of ship has come to grief on its Olivier had a most difficult task islands that disappear and re-ap-rockbound coast. Perhaps the before him and if he was going pear again, of men who were present dogs which roam the iso solve an exceedingly com- marooned on these lonely, rocks and are the descendants of the plicated problem in India, he and who spent months digging pot or mascot dogs of wrecked must be most careful about as- desperately for diamonds, of the ships. Last year two French similation as advocated by Pro- dangers of seal-hunting and of scientists were landed on the is fessor Bose. He commended the fights with sea elephants.
land, and have remained there to example of Professor Base's We
take observations. These two endowment to millionaires in will be picked up by the present Britain adding Britain, could do Soured French expedition.
with a great ceal of similar men- ifesta tion of genuine patriotisma. UNSUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION. Mr. Bernard Shaw pointed to
Batter Tately reached Capetown
Another of these mystery is-Professor Bose's extraordinary sixteen men who are facing lands that the American ex-experience in having a Prime adventure with the calculated edition hope to visit is Gough Minister present at the lecture, zeal of scientists. Their ship, a stand. Commander Wild, in also the more staggering fact that three-masted schooner, has been
Shackleton's Last Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Sir sent out under the direction of
Voyage," describes how the Sydney Olivier appeared to take the Cleveland.S. A.) Museum Quest expedition landed on an interest in science which was of Natural History. The expeditiough Island and found, to their unprecedented. After bearing tion which is to make Capetown astonishment two hats in ex-the lecture. Mr. Shaw suggested its base, is to conduct a two yea callent condition, while all around Professor Bose should construct cruise. Lonely Tristan da Cunha, lay instruments for mineralogical mashine of sufficient delicary with its brave missionary and his examination, picks, shovels, hose, to exhibit the processes of the. wife, is one of the islands to be hand pump, washing-pan, ropes, mind of a Premier or Cabinet visited, Kerguelen, where the waxes, and so on. On a stove near Minister. A panel could then be elephants breed. Gough Island, by was cut by someone who constructed of persons capable of with its myth of diamonds, and knew his job the following in-administering those functions. many others, probably fifty in all scription:F. X. Zigter, R. J.
Professor Bose, concluding, bis Among these islands the exy Garden. J. Hagan, W. Swaine, lecture foresaw an enhancement plorers hope to gather interesting 3. C. Fentra. Capetown, 16 &-19." jo' skill of Indian workers leading natural history specimens, to set No explanation was forthcoming to the greatly increased pro- strange animals and places, and of this mysterious expedition.sperity of the country. The perhaps to chance on a few things The story is known only to a few unrest in India was primarily due that are quite exceptional. The in Capetown and has never been to economic distress which ticulary interested in Bouvet Is published. It is, however, worth should not be allowed to drift. the telling as it reveals the India had inexhaustible resources land, said to be the most romantic rumours that come is her soil and her minerals. sterious of the group. Certainly from these islands of the southern She could be one of the richest it would be difficult to discover sea. About five years ago a man countries in the world if she much about Bouvet Island in the walked into the offices of a knew how to utilise the gifts. encyclopaedies or even the Capetown shipping firm with a Her hope lay in the encourage- "Oceanic Filat." The average small bag of gravel and a dozen ment of originality and the in- Cazeteer merely states that it is small diamonds. He explained ventive capacity of Indians for 1,500 miles southwest of the Cape to the manager of the firm that the beneft of their own people of Good Hope. while the atlases he had discovered these diamonds and their own country. vary in showing it in longitude 4
on Gough Island, and that there east and longtitude 3 west-
were more to be found there. His- story was plausible enough, and Of the French sailors who first the result was that a schooner found it. it is not known for cer
was equipped by the firm and set Lain whether they were able to sail for Gough Island, carrying land, for no record of what they the white men mentioned above: found ever came back to the and about twelve Kafirs from world. There is the record of a Kimberley. The ship reached
Three thousand independent German expedition which man-Gough Island, the white men and aged to reach the island on No Kafirs and a quantity of tools Doukhobor farmers of Kamsack, vember 25.1838. They found it were landed, and after a promise Saskatchewan district. are dis- surrounded by huge glaciers. Its to call again, for them in three posing of their farms to an Amer mountain-tops were enveloped in oaths' time the skipper of the car syndicate and preparing to for South depart for Soviet Russia: Ther clouds. which may account for schooner set sail the fact that previous expeditions Georgia. But he did not reckon expect to leave Montreal in about searched for it in vain. The ex-with the weather of the southern three weeks and sail direct to They intend to continue pedition ma aged to land. Ther seas. Six months passed before Odessa. found that there was to running he managed to reach Gough Is-wheat growing and modern farm-
mening under Canadian methods. water, ni vegetation. and that land again. The white
It is estimated that they will animal life was practically non-were still there, but had lived
back $7,000,000 Tabout AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY. FOOD PRESERVATION. existent. In the centre of the through many great hardships. take island was
a big crater of vol- They had gone at the wrong time £1.400,000), which they have
worst accumulated during their resi canic origin. Altogether it was of the year, when the
Sale of Calvert Collection.
Safety in the Glass Jar. a wild deserted spot that no one weather was to be experienced. dence in Canada.
The Doukhobor settlement in An interesting collection of The would particularly care to visit Nevertheless, they struggled on
Society of Glass again. They managed to take with the work they had set out Western Canada began in 1898 books relating to Australia and Technology, which bes the
photographs and
to do. Not a single diamond was with the fight of the sect from New Zealand. with some also habit of visiting *HODIO out the island and the group that ever found. The whole story of Russia owing to their religious relating to Polynesia, is to be sold city for each of its monthly it belongs to. Since then no real diamonds on Gough Island was objection to compulsory military by Messrs. Hodgson, of 115, meetings, met recently at the
Chancery-lane, on May 2, and Manchester scientific expedition has been myth. One Kaffir in the expedi-service. Some time before.
College of Te- near the island, so the Americans tion died, and the survivors were strong appeal to public feeling in the catalogue has already been chnology. The chairman may yet find something which eventually brought to Capetown. England was sent to The Times issued. This library, which is Professor W.ES. Turner of the will startle the scientific world. Yet the myth still persists, and by Tolstoy. About 4,000 of them divided into about 300 lots. was Department of Glass Technology The American expedition is there are many in Capetown who arrived at Quebec in January, originally formed by the late John of the University of Sheffield. not the only one that is visiting shake their heads mysteriously 1899, and smaller parties gradual- Calvert, but has been greatly Among the several scientific Kerguelen. Recently a French when Gough Island is mentioned. I brought the total up to about added to by the present owner, papers
which were read The 7,500. The cruise is expected to take industrious settlers, and in 1907 collections
capable and Mr. George Calvert expedition sailed from Capetown
Since discussed WAE one by the of this kind are chairman, in which he urged the for this island, being-ordered two years, and in all probability they
establisbed 2 by the French Goverment to 30,000 miles will be travelled. brickmaking plant at Yorktown. ance as wholes than for their in- turers
large generally of greater import desirability of glass manufac cxplore Kerguelen and report ax The enterprize of this American
working to of specification 80 to the adaptability of the island museum is likely to produce ex. A feature of their life is their dividual items, the Calvert li-sort
practice of setting out for sheep and pig rearing. It wili cellent, if not startling, scientific
on brary is to be offered, first of all, that the customer and Lisez periodical treks at certain in one lot. If, however, the recould have some assurance that also prospect for goal and other results.
intervals of the year and serve is not reached, the books, the articles supplied would fulfil occasionally their superstitious will be sold-piecemeal
the conditions for which they and eccentric customs have The most remarkable item in were intended. brought them in conflict with the the sale is a number-about 270-
In the course of the paper Pro Canadian police. On the whole. of original and unpublished pen-fessor Turner said he was quite however they are held in high and-ink and water-colour draw-convinced that given a glass con- osteem by settlers of other ings by one P. H. F. Phelps-tainer of satisfactory general nationalities on the Western Phelps appears to have been a durability, no foodstuff," whether prairies.
settler at or near Sydney in packed moist or in syrup, or again about the year 1840, who after in vinegar or fruit juices, was wards (in 1844 or later) acquired capable of extracting from glass an estate on the Moraya River, any arsenic capable of detection Mr. J. Benson Cox, the about 150 miles south of Sydney. by most refined measurement. employer of Carles Bulpitt, a As an artist he was only an aven supposing it to be present in 16-year-old English boy who amateur. but his drawing the very small amounts used in banged himself on a farm in have considerable topographical, making some glasses.js Huron County, has been charged ethnological and scientific im
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BON VOYAGE.
BY BERTON BRALET.
I hope you have a pleasant trip. -.
And don't get sea-sick on the ship
No matter how she yaws and veors;
I hope you'll write, but hear my plea:
No matter what you do or see, DON'T send me any souvenirs. “
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Your alburt full of kodak views And praise whatever. there appears;
I'll listen to the tales you tell But heed this solemn warning well: DON'T bring me any souvenirs.
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Of every sort of useless stuff
Already I have quite enough,
I've carted them about for years;
So travel anywhere you will,
But if you'd keep my friendship still, DON'T bring me any souvenirs.
THE DOUKHOBORS.
Reported Return To Russia.
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