Mitiaro On A Jaunt
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Tulagi, June 18.
THE s.s. Mitiaro, now the residence of the author of “Jock of the Islands,” must have become infected with the spirit of adventure, emanating from the pages that were written aboard. Recently, after lying for months at her moorings, she got skittish and broke away, making a quite obviously hopeless attempt to get out of Tulagi unobserved by way of the too shallow back passage.
For a while she rested on the sands there, but as the passage is used by many small vessels, and she was blocking the fairway, the s.s. Durour, now almost as much a feature of Tulagi as the Mitiaro, was prevailed upon to come to her assist ance, and towed her over to Makambo.
In view of the Mitiaro’s tendency to roam, quite elaborate precautions have been taken to check her.
The Durour has been held up by a repeti tion of her previous difficulty in getting a native crew. Some of her European crew fell sick, and now she cannot con tinue her voyage to Sydney until the copra steamer arrives on June 24 with two new engineers.