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"Tiare Taporo"
Schooner's 4,400 Miles Voyage
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, June 23.
TWO weeks ago the “Tiare” sailed away on what will be an interesting three months’ voyage.
Proceeding first to the island of Aitu taki, an old whaling station of last cen tury, and one of the islands visited dur ing the War by Count von Luckner, the “Tiare” will unload meat and flour. Her next port is Manihiki, an atoll in the Northern Cooks. It was from here that the Peruvian “black-birders” took many a cargo of poor humans to South Ame rica to work in the mines.
A two days’ sail will bring her to Pen
rhyn Island, famous for pearls. This atoll was fi rs t discovered by the “Lady Pen rhyn” in 1789. This ship was one of the first fleet that had arrived in Botany Bay a year previously. Owing to a food shortage this ship was sent to New Zea pu£ "she 6 ttn fa proceeSed C rthe n^u?h sea i s i an d S) an d it was on this voyage that she discovered Mangarongaro, as the atoll was then called, From Penrhyn the old “Tiare” will make for Tahiti, the “End of the Rain bow’ f or su far"daddies > Frederick O’Brien s nut-eating cranks, and nature men’.
After unloading her copra, the schooner will make a 1,200 miles run north to Christmas Is., where a French concession has workers making copra, The “Tiare”, after taking a load of copra to Tahiti, will sail for her home port in Rarotonga.