"SEEING THE WORLD."

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 9

"SEEING THE WORLD."

VOYAGERS IN A YACHT. ARTICLES FOR MUSEUM. (From Our Own Correspondent.) RUSSELL, this day. Captain Victor Brisson, the master of the schooner-rigged yacht Bissy Girl, which arrived at Russell • from the Islands on Tuesday night, is not a stranger to New Zealand, for he visited the Dominion in 1929 as sailing master on tho Wanderlust, an ocean-going yacht oil which the American owner, Mr. H. S. Bissell, and his family had cruised across the Pacific Ocean from California. Captain Brisson has given his craft the affectionate nickname he bestowed on Mr. Bissell's daughter. Mr. Tom Deane, who is cruising with Captain Brisson, is a young American making his first voyage in the Pacific. The other members of the crew are Edgar Lucas, a French-Tahitian youth, and Tautriki Roo, a native boy from Takume Tuamotu, in the Low Archipelago group, whom Captain Brisson adopted when the vessel called there recently. The yacht, which flies the tricolour of Francc, left San Pedro, California, on August 1, and has since_ called at the Marquesas and at Tahiti, Raiatea. and Tahaa, in the Society group. "Just to travel and see the world." said Captain Brisson, when asked the purpose of the cruise. "A long time ago I promised myself when I retired I would build myself a boat, so that when I became fed up with one place I could move on to another. We will go next to Auckland, and possibly Gisborne and Wellington. Then we will head for Sydney, where I have a sister. I want to go to New Guinea to collect some birds for the Wliittier . Ornithological Academy, and then we head for Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. After that who knows where we will go?"

Captain Brisson has some stone artifacts and other Polynesian articles for presentation to Mr. Gilbert Archey for placing in the Auckland Museum. Fish is the staple diet on board the Bissy Girl.