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Show MESSAGES FLOAT FOR YEARS United States Hydrographlc Offica Tells of Finding of Bottle Set 4 Adrift In 1914. i" !( Several Instances of messages In. bottles having floated about tlie Pacific Pa-cific for years before being recovered have been announced by the United States hydrographlc office. A bottle was set adrift by Capt. Nagahue of the Tamba Maru, Japanese, Japan-ese, August 17, 1915, 900 miles east of Kamchatka, was recovered May 15 last aear Moelips, Wash. Another bottle, set adrift In December, 1914, off Cape Corrientes, Mex., was found February 22 last 240 miles north of Christmas Island, in the latitude of the Hawaiian Islands. A third bottle, tossed from the schooner "W. H. Marsten by Capt. W. Wann February 14, 1915, 2,040 miles east of Chile and 6G0 miles south of Easter Island, was picked up January 21 last four miles south of Wanganul Island, New Zealand. |