"Zita II" Arrives At Hawaii
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Hawaii.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Feb. 4.
RESIDENTS of Pitcairn, Mangareva, th,e Tuamotus, Marquesas, and, fin ally, Tahiti, will be glad to hear that Dr. W. F. Holcomb in the 46 foot stay sail schooner “Zita H.’’, who visited all those islands during 1937, has arrived safely at Hawaii. Leaving San Francis co, in September, 1936, Dr. Holcomb, ac companied by his wife, their two daugh ters, Elizabeth and Iris, and George Over (a University of California sophomore), has covered some 13,000 miles without undue incident.
Before Pitcairn they visited the so called “tragic” isles of Galapagos and met Arthur Wittmer and his family who became emmeshed in the mystery shrouded antics of the sensational Bar oness Eloise Bosquet von Wagner Wehr bom. The latter, a glamorous Viennese noblewoman, set up a strange “Garden of Eden” kingdom on Floriana Island.
The Wittmers were the last to see alive the baroness and her companion, Robert Phillipson, who set sail from Floriana a year or so ago, never to be heard from again. ihe Holcomb party speak highly of 'the generous hospitality which was showered upon them wherever they went in the South Seas.
