Exploring The Pacific
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French Yacht at Tahiti
From Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, Oct. 1.
AFTER an interesting voyage of nearly six months’ duration, the French yacht La Korrigane dropped anchor in Papeete Bay on September 15—the first occasion upon which this spot has been favoured with a visit by a French yacht of any considerable size.
Leaving Marseilles on March 28, the yacht cruised along the coast of Spain, crossed the Strait to Tangier, and from thence proceeded to the Panama Canal by way of the Canary Islands and the French West Indies. In the Panama Canal she encountered the tiny American sailing yacht Cimba, which is now lying in Papeete Harbour. On her way to Tahiti from Panama, La Korrigane touched at the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands.
The yacht is owned by Compte. E. de Ganay, retired naval officer, who is charged with a special mission from the Geographical Society of France, and the object of the voyage, which will cover two years, is the exploration of the lesser known islands of the Pacific.
Compte de Ganay has for assistants aboard the yacht Messrs. M. C. van den Broek d’ Obrenan and M. J. Ratisbonne, who will collect specimens of fish and corals, and also ethnological material, for the Trocadero Museum in Paris.
Rev. G. W. Bradley, Anglican Chaplain of the New Guinea goldfields area, arrived in Sydney from the Territory on Novem ber 23.