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LONG CRUISE.
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WONDERS OF PACIFIC.
STORY OF SLOOP'S COMMISSION.
Strange Places.
With her coal supply practical- ly exhausted, barely enough food aboard for just one more meal, almost no water, no olgarettes or pipe tobacco, but with a cruising record of 12,000 miles behind her jand an Australian kangaroo tied
out on the aftor deck 238 souvenir of the trip, the British. sloop Bluebell of the British Navy slipped into Manila harbour yesterday afternoon from tho Polew Islands en route to Hong. kong, says the Manila Bulletin of May 21st.
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Extraordinary good luck is. attonding the Arcturus expedition in the Pacifle.
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Before the discovery of the volcanoes the Arcturue came upon a gigantic tide-rip where the Panama and Humboldt currents
She is completing a four and al helf mouths cruise of the South Seas and while she loft the homo port, Hongkong, stocked' to the gunwales with supplies of every make more real the story of this meet. In the mass of foam which sort and has renewed many times wonderful cruise. en route, she came into Manila Bay yesterday "naked as a jay bird." She will be here four went to Port Moresby in Papua, days and while the officers the latter being in New Guinea, and men are strotching their Next to Ribaul, the capital of the logs from their many wooks Bismarck archipelago, where the of life aboard ship she will again crew witnessed strange dances stock up with the necessities of which, in the words of the tellers, life, including a special diet for make vivid wild talos of the the wild kangaroo.
South Pacific and the languid life on palm shaded shores. From The sloop Bluebell is a trim there they went to Ponape and little ship of only 1,200 tons and a Truk in the Caroline group, complement of seven officers and Next came Yap. Although their 90 men, set counting a miscell-supplies had been gradually aneous assortment of Chinese diminishing in spite of efforts to boys, who, according to officers renew at every available point, of the ship, vary in numbor, the good ship Bluebell continued according to where they are and her cruise, from Yap steaming to the work to be done aboard. Just the Polewe. now they have a goodly crowd of the sons of Han aboard as they are nearing Hongkong and the native stamping grounds for most of them,
extended for scores of miles wal. I From Cape York the Bluebelllowed great numbers of whales and porpoises. Wreckage, cover- ed with organisma and fish of all sizes fooding on them, provided the scientists with an unexpected opportunity for observation. For the first time they found there the eggs of halobates, the only marine insects in the world. Tho 9888 are being hatched in tanks. Ingredible numbers of jelly-fish coloured the water purple for many square miles. The expedi-. tion, has caught more than 150 species of fish, among them being transparent flounders, deep-sea mackerel with blue and yellow lights, many kinds of jelly-fish, and fish which live only on jelly- fish.
With barely sufficient faol to bring them to the Philippines she again lost the sight of land, gam- bling with the god of the sea and the wind to haul into Manila Bay without mishap.
The Bluebell's commander is
Dr. Boebe roports that while drifting in the neighbourhood of the tide-rip, the Arcturus ro- peatedly, but vainly, attempted to break through "the eaturation of the state" with its powerful wireless apparatus. The message
Although a tiny ship to be roaming the South Pacific, all alone, the Blueboll fears no storms or waves, according to Commander A. R. Smithwick, D. is dated April 16 from Equator, those aboard who have guided S. O. The other officers are 92deg. west longitude. hor during the past four and a Lieutenant I. B. Farrant, half months through some of the Lieutenant
P. G. Agnew, most terrific storms which sweep
Lieutenant W. J. Rankine, the South Pacific. On various Commanding Engineer J. F. Wobb occasions she threatened to and Gunner E. A. Church turn a somoreault when a particularly playful wave slapped her broadsides, but she always came through on top and now she is almost home where she will be over hauled from tip to stern and those aboard will receive a rost well earned.
RARE BIRD KILLED. The killing of a fine female specimen of that rare bird, the great crested grebe, on the river Greta, Koswick, a few weeks ago, wee the subject of a charge under: The cruise of the Bluebell has the Wild Birds Protection Act taken her to strange and out of against six Keswick youths, Mr. the way places of tho Southern half of the Royal Society for Oglethorpe, prosocuting on be- Starting from Hongkong on January 12 she made a flying the Protection of Birds, om- jump to Sandakan on the coast of phasized the rarity of the
Seas.
British North Borneo and later great crested grebe, ospecially visited Kudat and Jesselton, also in bo North, Defendants on Borneo's northern coast, but stoned the bird and hit it. It there they departed for a place when Bennett caught it. They took refuge between two boulders, seldom seen by white men, the leland of Bruna, a tiny spot in tore all the skin and feathers off the Pacific off Borneo, and visited the neck trying to kill it, think- the capital, a town of the same ing it was wild duck. The Chair- name as the island. Here the man said he could not deal with sultan of Brussi holds forth and defendants' brutal cruelty, and those of the Bluebell were enters, apparently, they did not know tained on a royal scale. The the bird, he fined them 7a. 6d. sultan brought out his harem, in- each.
vited his guests to make them- solves at home and-but that's another story.
OFF BEATEN PATH. From the dreamy realm of the sultan the Bluebell and her men took the beaten path for a few days, visiting Singapore and Penang, but soon sailed away again for Teluk Anson and Port
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With her bunkera full and a heavy larder she went without a bitch to Macassan of the Colebes group, then on to Amboinà of the Malacca, dots in the blue salt Pa- cific and later dropped bor anchor in the harbour of Dobo, a beauti- ful harbour of the Aru islands and under the flag of the Dutch. From there they went to the Thursday group for a flying visit. For bit of a thrill ihoy pulled-into Cape York on the northern most tip of Queensland and took day hunting ashore. Thoy shot all manner of things and, it was hore they captured the kangaroo which to-day graces the radr dock of the Blueboil and some day in the words of its ownor, will visit Bonny Scotland
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