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MUSIC OF SAND.
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Desert Harmonies.
Reference to the curious sound of dosert lands known as the Music of the Sanda" was made by Maj-rGondoral Sir Poroy Cox in a lecture on" Some Excursions! in Oman," which he delivered rocently before the Royal Geogra- phical Society,
Sir Percy made two journeys in Oman while serving as Poli- tical Agent of the Government of ludia, and he was the first European to traverse some of the ground be covered. He first hoard the music of the sands, he said, while the caravan toiled up' and down the sand dunes. It was like the booming of a great organ in the distance, and to one hear- ling it for the first timo an ox-
traordinary phenomenon.
Sir Poroy described an exciting camel race he had with the pilot of his party. "My camel," he said "was fresh, and in trying to pull her up the headstring came away in my hand, and she went away with me into the blue. Sitting as I was On Monday, the 1st June and Wednesday, the 3rd June the G.P.0, and Branch bohind the hump, according to Post Offices will be open as follows:-The G.F.0, from 8 o,m. to 10,30 am, on the 1st the approved method of riding
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LINK WITH SCOTT. return to Edinburgh, where: he obtained a post with the well- firm of a native of Ballantyne was
known publishing Hegistration 8.45 am. fashioned on his knowledge of Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Thomas Constable and Bon
another fanious] (Duo Marcollies 12th July.) the frozen wilds of Canada. Ballantyne, younger brother and It was
When, in his third work, "Coral partner of James and John Edinburgh publisher, Blackwood,
friends and who,
In 1848, persuaded! Island," he assayed to describe Ballantyne, tho
young Ballantyne to publish scenes with which he was totally brinters of Sir Walter Scott. Hook, Lieut. R. J. Montgomery, Mr. F. Lanny, Mr. F. P. Meakin, Mrs. unacquainted, Ballantyne made Indeed, it was Alexander Ball-in book form, entitled "Hudson S. A. Martindale, Miss H., Grant, F. M. Dillon and two children, Miss at least one glaring error which antyno who copied out in his Bay," the diary which he had Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Johnston and P. Dillon, Mrs. A. Blacklock, Miss decided him (although "Coral own handwriting before the com-written during his life at Seven PASSENGERS DEPARTED, Noakes, Pay-Comdr. E. T. Green, child, Mrs. D. T. Keogh, Master JA. Ranney, Mrs. Millington and two Island" was one of the most fas positors received the manuscipt, Islands; but it was not until Capt. and Mrs. H. S. Burniston, Mr. Keogh, Two Misses Keogh, Mr. E. infants, Miss Edgar, Miss D. Radscinating things he ever wrota) the earlier novels of Scott, when seven years later, in 1855, that
anonymity of the author.
atorios dealing with his exper and Mrs. G. W. Clark, two children Saito, Mr. E. Prophet, Miss Kdale, Mr. and Mrs., R. H. Sharp, over again to dispense with first-it was still desired to preserve the Ballantyne commenced to write Young Robert Ballantyne was encas, and then only on the sug So he went to Ramagato and Per 8.5. Morca, for Europe via and infant, Mr. J. Green, Mr. and Stedham, Misa H. A. Burley, Mrs. J. Comdr. L. H. B. Bevan, Mrs. J. S. band knowledge of bis subject. Porta, May 30. Mr. and Mrs. E. Mrs. J. L. Stewart, Master Stewart, Mathews, Mrs. V. Hicks, Mr. and Law, Mr. J..J. Edgar, Mr. S. J. Box, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Purslow, Misses A, and B. Stewart, Mr. A. M13. A. E. Bell, Mr. B. C. Lee, Mr. Edgar, Mr. A. B. Findlay, Mr. A. chummed with the coxswain of apprenticed as a clerk with the geation of still another Foted Mr. and Mrs. C. Fallan and three McLeod, Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Not-C. Nopper, Mrs. E. B. C. Hornell, Ingelmann, Mr. B. A. Hale, Mr. O. the lifeboat there for local Hudson Bay Company, at a salary Edinburgh publisher, William
In 1866 Ballantyno married Sinfants, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Vinsect,tage, Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Lambert, Mrs. C. H. Nelson and child, Mr. D. I, Andren, Miss D. A. Swindell, Mrs, colour" for "The Lifeboat" went of £20, when he was sixteen. He Nelson, who published the first
acut. L. F. Field, Mr. and Mrs. A. Miss F. Wong, Mr. Lam Kow-H. Holley, Mr. F. Death, Mr. R. R. A. Woolger, Mr. D. J. Sandys, down to the tin mines of Corn-spent six or seven years in the W. Dailey and child, Mr. and Mrs. wong, Dr. and Mrs. Ingle and Genter, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Wheller, Mr. J. C, Plows, Mr. A. D, Armour, wall for his story." Deep Down"; great long land of the West, but Kuwahara and two infants, Mr. and infant, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Wilford Two Misses Wheller, Mrs. C. R. Mr. A. S. Currie, Mr. R. W. Binns, lived on the Bell Rook lighthouse the solitudo of the life-at one Border lady, and from about 1870 Mrs. J. T. Pratt, Miss Pratt, Miss and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Coole, Miss M. R. Coole, Master C. Mr. W. Hill, Mr. L. Sheppard, Miss for weeks before writing "The period, at least, he occupied the lived in England, mostly at Har Moat, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Forster, W. Molyreux and three children. A. Coale, Mrs. F. B. Walker, Mr. Ward, Master. Lord, Miles L. X. Lifeboat" served as an amateur lonely post of Savou Islands, on row: Thence, in October, 1893 Master Forster, Mr. A., C. Kennett, Mr. and Mrs. E. Bishop and Infant, C. H. Lim, Mrs. Metzner, Mrs. M. Tong. Mr. Loh Meng-choon, Miss E. Greman with the London Salvage the Gulf of St. Lawrence, alone, he went to Italy in an offort to Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cummins, Mr. Mr. W. Anderson, Mr. H. S. Pascon, Abbott and child, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Balehelor, Mr. Flangan, Corps in preparation for Fight save for the company of a recruit his failing health, only to
trawler, visited Norway, Cape man-servant-told upon his health LA Kam-chuen, Miss. D. Tippin, Mr. Mrs. W. Y. King, Miss B. Lajers, G. Phillips, Mr. H. W. Chappel, Mr. Mr. J. J. House, Mr. J. A. Hodge, ing the Flamor," want to sea in a solitary, silent. French-Canadian die on Fe ruary 8 of the following and Mrs. V. Jackson and infant, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ryley, Mr. P.T. H. Oh, Two Masters Oh, Rev. Mr. A. Jones, Mr D. J. Lee, M. Colony, Algiers, and other parts and spirits, and he was glad to bar at Romo, where his remaing Miss II. Cockburn, Mr. Ong Huck-B. Pock, Mr. L. H. Butcher, Mr. and W. P. and Mrs. Pulling and two B, T. Khoo, Mr. F. M. Hall, Mr. J.
ed on other stonies located in Tong, Mr. J, Elmore, Mr. G. Arm- Mrs. R. W. Bateman, Mr. and Mrs. children, Mr. G. Brash, Mr. J. W. S. Dobie, Mr. R. Paterson; M. A of the world when he was sugar-
these countries: ld, Mr. F. C. Burgess, Mrs. MM. Faures and Infant, Mr. W. F. Laverick, Mr. C. P. Cave, Mra. J. Wright.
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