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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, NOVEMBER 3rd, 1928.

CHATS ON PHOTOGRAPHY

5.-MARINE AND CLOUDSCAPES.

(By. J. O. W.)

Examine closely the illustration her sloping decks and her crew at of the King's yacht "Britannia" work. The windward side of running in before the breeze to

DAUNTLESS BRITISH EXPLORER. THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK. (By J. Holland Rose, Litt. D.)

years age

+

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

Undaunted, he doubled the pro- montory of Alaska, and pressed, on

through Behring Straits for into

the Arctic Ocean, lacking to and fro to find a passage through. the leo.packs.

SAVAGE 0.3.E.8.

By Jack McLaren,' Being members of a thoroughly primitive race, the three Solomon As we have seen, the ico beat Islanders recently awarded the |O.B.E.. for their great gallantry in It is just one hundred and Afty him, after the observation of the him, and he made for the Pacific, assisting to repel and arrest can- since Captain Cook transit of Venus, proceed south-whence he was never to retutribal raiders, will at first, have reached his "farthest north" wards in search of a southern But it would be a superficial difficulty in undorstanding what in his search for the passage from continent about latitude 40deg to estimate which pronounced his the honour means. the North Paelfe to the North Al-deg. Failing to find, he will third voyage a failure; for he was But once they have grasped it

Imake for New Zealand. He is searching for a passage which is they will enjoy it to the full. Marine photography affords op-lantic. alportunities for studying cloud

For there is nothing that South On Aug. 29, 1778, when off Cape instructed everywhere to note the impracticable for sailing ships, racht that is heeling over in a effects. And cloud pictures are North he noted in his diary: nature of the soil and the pro- and he rendered a great service by Sene islanders delight in more than her anchorage after a trial splù. breeze does not present, such aalways fascinating. Their fantas- What is there about it that gives picture...

the shapes, their wonderful designs, "Finding we could not weather ducts thereof," also, with the proving as much. Further, his the recognition of what they call. take experiences at Nootka Sound led the "Gub'ment." It is the ambition, The position of the sun is im- the play of light and shade all co- the expe], the wind freshening, a consent of the natives, to partant and must be considered operate to form a picture of thick fox coming on with much possession of convenient situations some of his Resolution men, for instance, of many of the young Compare the beautiful lines of when your subject is about to pass natural beauty. A set of cloud-snow, and being fearful of the in the country." If it is unin- especially Portlock, Dixon, Meares, men of a village to be the Village

įscapes is a desirable acquisition to lee coming down upon us, 1 gave any album. It will be found that up the design 1 had formed of the best results are obtained when plying to the westward and stood facing the sun with its direct rays off shore again.... I did not obscured. A day should be chosen think it consistent with prudence. when there la a slight breeze

It such an irresistible appeal? H Is "life"!

sufficient to alter the formation of to make any further attempts to the clouds without breaking them find a pasange into the Atlantic up into scattered dethehal patches, this year."

and

There is no special agparatus 11e therefore put about required to take pictures of clouds made for the Pieiße, intending to The illustration was taken with spend the winter in exploration, an ordinary hand camera from the and in the spring and summer of deck of a ship, with an ordinary 1770 renew the quest which had Alm. The stop used was the

the

mallest possible at a speed of balled every explorer from 1/50th of a second exposure,

time of Frobisher. It was not to

When photographing from the be. That unaccountable fit of leck of a ship that' suffers from anger among the natives of Hawaii! exrossive vibration, never rest your ended the life of Cook and robbed amera on the guard rail ar on any him." possibly, of the honour of of the shio's fixtures when making solying the problem of the North- in exposure or the result will be west Passage.

disappointing blur. The best way in obviate this is to balance

So far back as the year 1527

It bellying sails, and lant ropes in between the camera and the your own body by landing with that far-seeing Landon merchant, its how wave and stern Wash, tam. Therefore to avoid "Bare" your feet slightly separated, and Robert Thorne (whose tomb is in sloping deeks and busy crow, with the button must be pressed before when ready to snap, just raise the Temple Church), urged Henry the dead looking riser o the.

left. Yet the cruiser is necessary, to the complation of the picture. Cover up the left half of the illustration and you have remain- ing merely a picture of a yacht: only. Add the cruiser and you add atmosphere and balonre! of composition to the pisture,

"Atmosphere" is an elusive term - to define Photographiehilly in 19 synonymus, with Pham and who can define charm? Yet that pic- ture was not the result of a hap- hazard gnapshot. It was taken just before woon on a brilliantly sunny day with white clouds re- deeting the Right making the röndition - ideal for rapid shutter work. Taken from a small launch, it was nol diflicult to maneuver for position as sana is the yacht was observed to be mocking for hear anchorage. By maneuvring for

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VII, to send voyngers by "the back side of the New Found Land, which of late was discovered by your Grace's subjects, until they come to the back side and South Seas of the Indies Occidental. We shall go to these islands the Spice Islands] a shorter way by more than 2,000 leagues than by the rate of the Spaniards or Portingals" Dieulties there will be; but, conzlodes Thorne, " judge there is no land unhabitable,, nor sea innavigable.""

Dauntless Spirit. ·

In this dauntless spirit bun-

Captain Cook's m mument in Rawaii.

Treds of Englishmen had balled anbited he will set up "proper and Colnett. to return hither to with fee and hunger, and in-marks and Inscriptions, as fra open ap the trade fu furs thence eidentally, had won for the Bay Hiscoverers and possessors." ito China. Newfoundland, Bailin's Land, and

In 1785 the King George'al Cook's Conduct Explained. the posts in Hudson's Bay. But

Sound Company sent the two first Now, for the first time, we can of these men in the ships King position, 1 man endeavouring to the moving subject reaches the your heels off the deck so that the one had won through to the

Queen Charlotte, keep on the for side of the yacht; point where the lens will intercept weight of your body is on the ballSpiceties." The charter of the understand Cook's seemingly dur- George and for it is then possible to include the direct mys of the sun, af the car foot. It will be found Hudson's Bay Company (1679)ng conduct in annexing both New which in 1788 curried valuable! of sen-obter skins toj that all the ship's vibration will bade it push on the search through Zealand and the Pacific coast of Pargous he then bsorbes, and the camera' that bay; but nothing came of it. New Holland. Tasman had touch Canton, thus inaugurating the held perfectly afendy.

After 1740, however, interest in fed only at the northern end of trade between what was to he British North America and Chiha, Should the ship have any motion the Pacific was quickened by North Island of New Zealand, and Justly, then, Portlock, in his N her and be pitching heavily, Anson's semi-predatory voyage of no Bitehman had sailed along the narrative ("Voyage to the Coast of you may desire to snap a passing circumnavigation, also by the news fane 3. They also warn him to North America," 1789), attributes vessel, or perhaps some dauanal that Hussian voyagers had sailed beware of the islanders, and bid the founding of this traile ta eloud formation, it is as well to wa to that part of the ship where through the strait dividing Asia east coast of Australia. Cook, Captain Cook. So valuable did it there is least motion. This is the from America and down the consttherefore, bath carried out his prove to be that he refers to "a ship's pivot, roughly about one of the latter to within 12% degrees instructions and obeyed what well-known enterprising charac third of the ship's length from her of California,

may term "the gentlemen's' agree- ter" as planning to journey over- stem, ushally where the bridge is

Accordingly, in 1745, Parliament ment" as to annexing only those land from Canada to the North Pacific, through interior parla, situated. If rolling, always wait offered a considerable reward to lands not yet discovered by civilis- which were as yet unknown." His till the ship is at the top of her such person or persons as shoulded peoples.

reference probably is to the daunt- discover "a North-West Passage] His frst voyage not having re-less Scot, Mackenzie, who first through" Hudson's Streights to the vealed the great southern contin-crossed the Rocky Mountains to Western and Southern Ocean of ent, the instructions of June 25, the coast of British Columbia. If and my surmise is correct, the prime! America." Probably the war with 1772, signed by Sandwich France and Spain sterilised this other Lords of Admiralty, order impulse leading to Mackenzie's famous overland journey from offer. Besides, the fur-traders to him to proceed in 11.3.5. sloop Canada to the Pacific In 1793 Huilson's Bay gave discouraging Resolution falso Whitby-built) for originated in the third and last reports as to a profitable advance its discovery, sailing "as near to voyage of our greatest marine in that, direction.

the South Pole as possible." The foxplorer. Thus, not until the end of the orders as to annexation are then repeated. The age-long belief in Seven Years War was any persis-Terra Australis incognita" ae- Lent effort made to open inter-

courts both for the urgency of Course with the Pacific; but after these second instructions and the the somewhat disappointing voy-dogged persistence of Cook in ages of Captains Wallis and Byron seeking to reveal the existence of (grandfather of the poet), the a great Southern world. If it be Admiralty had the good fortune to service to mankind to dispel an light upon that prince of explorers, unren? belief, then his second voy- James Cook, then a "master" in

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The instructions of July 6, 177,

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of the transit of Venus, visible on prescribe as the main object la his third voyage the discovery of a June 3, 1769, at Tahiti.

Northern passage by pen from the Admiral Wharton and Mr. Kit-Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. He son, in their works on Cook, did is to proceed via the Cape of Good not discover the Admiralty in Hope and New Zealand to Tahiti, structions of July 30, 1768, to thence to New Albion (Drake's "Lieutenant" Cook. These, as well discovery), and sail up the coast as those for the second voyage, to North. America as -far |have, however, been found by Mr. latitude 65dex. exploring there- W. G. Perrin, Ibrarian at the abouts the inlets trending to- Admiralty, and are printed in the wards Hudson's or Baffin's Bay. new volume of the Navy Recordsi

Arctic Exploration. Society, "Naval Miscellantes," Vol.

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III. They rival in interest the new. I have no space in which to Nelson letters and other items in describe the efforts of Cook (now) this volume. The instructions are Captain), to explore the shores of signed by Admirals Edward what are now paris of British Hawke, Piercy, Brett, and C. Columbia and Alaska. He it was Spencer, the last two of whom had who revealed the possibility of a been with Anson round the world valuable trade in furs with thei in ILM.S. Centurion, and. there-Indians of Nootka Sound, who fur-] fore, connect Cook's Pacific dis-ther north explored several great coveries with that earlier effort. Inlets (already known to Russlan My lords bid him stand well to seamen), only to find them inlets the southward of Cape Horn and but not channels or straits likely be at Tahiti (then named King to lead to Ballin's Bay, which lay 1George's Island) six weeks before more than 500 leagues to the east.

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This is the humblest of all the jobs in the Government service and is full of onerous duties, such as seeing that the village is kept clean-a difficult business-and keeping the peace-a more dißeall business all--and may involve the Constable In arresting, bis

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brother or his parents, for most of The quarrels In a village are house- hold ones. Further, the pay for all this is only a couple of pounds In year.

But that doesn't matter. "The ¡Commissioner"-the High' Com- mmissioner for the Pacific-is boss

of the islands; well, me boss of lds village," one Constable told me ›roudly. "We got the same kind of job."

In New Guines the position of Village Constable is even more eenly sought after-because the Constable wears on his chest, a

| netal plate inscribed V.C., which is apposed to give added dignity. I 's the same with other positions which the different Governments tive to natives,

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