"Camargo” at Solomons
pp. 45-46 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent.
MAROVO, Sol. Is., Jan. 1.
LAST month the Solomon Islands were honoured by a visit from the American millionaire, Mr. Julius Fleischmann, and his family, in his 1,000-ton yacht, “Camargo.” It is their plan to make a two-years’ tour of the world.
Their main object in coming to the Islands was to see the simple life of the natives and collect curios and photographs. It is Mr. Fleischmann’s intention, after returning to America, to furnish a room in his palatial home at Cincinnati with all the curios he collects on his voyage.
After leaving Tulagi the Camargo was piloted through the Marovo and Roviana Lagoons, where Mr. Fleisch mann and his visitors had ample op portunities of visiting the most beauti ful parts of the Islands. With their up-to-date fishing tackle and fast launches they were able to enjoy some very good fishing, the Marovo lagoon being particularly suitable for this sport.
They intended calling in at the Bou gainville Group and hoped to reach Batavia in the early part of the New Year.
“I find your paper most interesting, and it certainly fills a long-felt want in the Islands. The majority of people living ashore on any of these Island Groups are surprisingly ignorant of conditions elsewhere in the Pacific.” . . . Capt. John McCulloch, Aitutaki, Cook Islands.