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Show I YACHT MAjB H'l Arrives Safely in English Port 1 After Hundred Thousand- I mile Trip On Scientific 1 Mission. m (Correspondence .of The Associated 1 Press.) I London, July .The llttlo 23-ton I yacht "Hana" has arrived -safely in 1 an English port after a voyage of a I hundred thousand miles. Belonging to H Mr. and Irs. Scoresby Routledge, fl the vessel left England over two years ago on a scientific mission to ffl Easter Island, in the South Pacific. 1 The last stage of the little vessel's Hl voyage wa sfrom San Francisco, Hl -which she left five months ago. Al- B together there -were eleven persons H on board, including two men from Pitcairn Island. Mr. Routledge had some interesting details of the voy- "After leaving San Francisco," he said, "we came down the Mexican coast. Two hundred miles from land we came upon three islands marked as unintabited and I decided to land to tr- and get some meat. But our landing was delayed as the mouth of the cove was occupied by two whales who were feeding and who refused to move until the following day. On landing we found a rough shanty, to-gether to-gether with a derelict boat and along-side along-side a rough cross, evidently marking fl a grave. In a rift in a cliff we found a sort of cave strewn with old bottles and odds and ends of a camp. Nearby was a piece of wood bearing the names of Annie Lars en, which I learned from a shipwrecked sailor, who was on the yacht, was the name of a vessel engaged in blockade run-ning run-ning or contraband. There is no doubt that the remote island had been a dumping ground for Mexican revolu-tionists. revolu-tionists. "There were so many turtles that we got tired of feeding on them. It was surious to see, these creatures being regarded by the birds as a kind of floating island, and the seagulls preening themselves on the turtles' backs. "The 'Mana visited one small is-land is-land in the Gulf of Panama where elephantiasis was rampant among the people. The currents in this re-gion re-gion were very diflicult and there was one sailing ship that had been drifting in circles for thirteen months and had been unable to get out. Tbe Panama Canal was closed to traffic but the American government kind-ly kind-ly allowed the 'Mana,' as a vessel of a scientific expedition, to go through. "Some fifty miles from Jamaica we saw what appeared to be at first a burning ship and afterwards looked like smoke from a naval action. "We found it to 'be a submarine volcano blowing off. Tho sea flow had been broken and we saw seas breaking In places where the chart showed no land. Under the circumstances no Investigation was possible." oo |