A Bit "Fed Up"
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Tahiti's Indifference To Visiting Yachtsmen
From Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, Apr. 12.
THE yacht Sirius, of Sydney, with its owner and his two sons on board, reached Papeete Harbour recently. The little vessel has navigated the Standard round the world route usually followed by such craft —Bali, Java, Suez, the At lantic, Panama, Galapagos Islands, and Tahiti.
The Galapagos Group is the one re maining place in the Pacific whence tall tales of sea dragons, mermaids, Cyclops, and other prodigies can be brought home.
Publicity loving scientists have painted flamboyant pictures of its natural history and the human imagination is a marvel lous thing.
Many daring round-the-world voyagers have visited Papeete. But Tahiti is a bitter disappointment to these gallant “Men Against the Sea.” They complain
at our indifference and lack of recogni tion. Sometimes they write caustic and unkind things about us in their home newspapers.
We are most pained and grieved when these articles appear; but the truth is, we feel —as the various countries of Western Europe must have felt when the flock of heroes following Lindbergh began dropping on them out of the skies—a bit “fed up!”