“The Longing”

Sea-wanderers Seek a Care-free Land

From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, January 16.

TE RAPUNA—which in Maori means “The Longing”—is the name of a small sailing yacht under the German flag, which reached Apia after a voyage of 37 days from Honolulu. The crew con sists of two Germans, Captain G. J. Fub bern and G. Oilmen.

The two men, in a leisurely way, since August, 1930, when they left Germany, have circumnavigated the globe on the lookout for a new Eden, and carrying a new message and philosophy of life for mankind. They visited the Mediterranean, Las Palmas, the West Indies, California, Hawaii, before coming to Samoa.

Captain Fubbern, a true philosopher of the sea, has done a lot of lecturing on the way, especially in Hawaii, and before school children. He has given a success ful lecture in Samoa.

The adventurous seafarers intend to cross over to New Zealand and later on will return to Hawaii, which seems to them the most attractive country they have found so far.