Show FAMED FAME PIRATE ISlAND MO NOW ON STEAMER ROUTE ROTE I P AGO TAGO P PAGO AGO American Samoa April The 6 The opening of ot a ri new w ocean lane has las brought bro Into Into comm communication with the he outside world Pitcairn Island situated situated situated situ situ- in the eastern part of ot the South Pacific an Island which before the construction construction con- con of the Panama canal perhaps one of the most rarely visited isted places s in inthe J he the seven seas The great circle route rouse from Panama to Australia passes directly by Pitcairn Island now and in consequence the ounce lonely onely islanders find themselves 5 suddenly In n close touch with world events where where- wh whereas re- re as in times tImes' past they accounted th them them- selves fortunate if In a year one end on or two ships visited their shores PitcaIrn island is H by the descendants of ot the British sailors who more than years ag ago by bv mutiny the ship Bounty and setting their commander Captain Bligh and his officers adrift in an open boat returned to and having induced J. J a company company company com com- pany of natives to accompany them sailed away to PItcairn where they re remained remained reo re- undiscovered for tor twenty-five twenty years There are now forty families ill livIng living liv liv- ing on the island nd all of them direct descendants of ot these mutinous white men I and their n wives The Island l lying ing just to the southward has semitropical semitropical semi semi- Of f the of Capricorn a tropical climate and in consequence many of ot the the fruits fruits of t. t the tropic and temperate zones flourish there This fact makes makers ita ita it ita a grateful stop stopping ln 11 place ce for vessels asela |