Travel With B.P. Maga

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SINCE the days when valiant Drake sailed the Spanish Main and Cook combed the wide Pacific, the urge to travel has been inherent in civilised man. Not to everyone, however, comes the good fortune to climb aboard a giant liner, cruise cyanic seas, hear the quaint chatter of alien tongues, and gaze on scenes and people foreign to one’s ken. The unfortunates —and they are legion—usually seek solace in the printed word, and travel hooks and journals are always in de mand. In this connection the March issue of the B.P. Magazine is a veritable magic-carpet.

Following in the wake of Martyn Whyte’s pen and camera, we journey to Morocco, Land of Contrasts, where the beauty of marble mosques and glowing sunsets is offset by a nauseating glimpse of a Moorish market place crammed with swarthy, evil-smelling natives, gyrating dervishes, and howling, gesticulating merchants. On to Napoleon’s birthplace—Corsica, a wind-swept isle of towering mountain buttresses and peopled by a race of shy, pleasant folk, whose happy children romp among glades of tiny yellow Alpine flowers.

Then to New Guinea, with its fascinating story of the gold trail and the part played by aero planes in establishing a modern mining community in the heart of that great wild country, guarded by forbidding ranges and miasmic jungles. Soon we are in the East—China the Inscrutable, coun try of swarming millions. With Kurt Offenburg. we traverse narrow streets and crowded, winding canals seeking the key to the philosophic calmness of her people. Then in rapid succession we jour ney through Rome, Jamaica, Cornwall, Borneo.

California, London, and a score of other colourful lands and cities.

In addition ts the travel sketches, the issue contains a choice selection of short stories, verses, and notes on films, drama, the arts, fashions, aaid Sydney’s social life, together with innumerable beautifully reproduced photos and illustrations.

Rev. Robert Leek, of the New Guinea Mission staff at Samarai, Papua, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the Montoro on April 1.