ROUND THE WORLD IN A COCKLESHELL.
In a little boat of 32 tons, with a motor of 40 horse power. Captain Itayniond llalHer du lla.tr, with three young French officers, three seamen and a cook (the eldest among them is 30 years, the others are hardly more than boys), fire about to start in their cockleshell round the world, exploring on their way a number of uninhabited islands in the South Indian and South Pacific oceans, coasting round the north of Australia, where no man has ever settled, paying visits to the savages and cannibals of New Guinea, the New Hebrides and other island races, and coming homo by way of the Panama Canal, if ready in time, or if not by a six months' longer voyage round Cape Horn, The expedition is supported by the French Government, and is purely scientific in its objects. Captain du Baity will take soundings in 8000 fathoms of the Pacific, the ■deepest sea in the world, and collect specimens of natural history from the ocean bed and the uninhabited islands.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3634, 21 September 1912, Page 4
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177ROUND THE WORLD IN A COCKLESHELL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3634, 21 September 1912, Page 4
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