SAILED ROUND WORLD.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 14

SAILED ROUND WORLD.

YACHT'S ADVENTUROUS TRIP. ARMYLLIS ARRIVES HOME. A long and adventurous cruise, one that will long be remembered by yachting men, terminated on Friday last, by the arrival at Dartmouth, England, of the British 29-ton yawl-rigged sailing yacht Amaryllis. This craft, the owner and master of which is Lieutenant G. H. P. Muhlhauser, has just completed a round-the-world cruise, in tlie course of which she has visited a host of islands, as well as ports on the various niaiilands along which she has sailed. The outward, cruise was made by way of the \Vest Indies, Panama Canal, many islands in the South Pacific, and then on to Sydney, New South Wales. After a stay of some duration in Sydney, the yacht came to Auckland, arriving there early in 1922, says the "New Zealand Herald." Durino- the yacht's three montns' sojourn in"this port, her master received the heartiest of welcomes from local yachtemen, who, one and all, were keenly interested in his cruise of adventure. ' For a few weeks the Amaryllis lay at one of the wharves, after which she took up moorings in Mechanics Bay the Amaryllis left Auckland at the end of April, 1922, homeward bound, for England. It was planned that she should proceed by way of Torres Straits, Ceylon, and the Red Sea, with, ot •jouree, numerous calls at islands en route. She touched at various ports m the Solomons and New Hebrides, and afterwards sailed westward toward New Guinea. Subsequently she touched at Timor, and then went to Java. Penang also was visited, and then came another long run across the open ocean to Ceylon. A projected call at Bombay was cancelled, and the Amaryllis again set forth on a westward course across the open ocean toward Aden. Many Touches of Humour. The most ticklish section of the voyage was the passage of the Red Sea, and here, at certain stages, the vessel had to be towed, so adverse were the prevailing winds. Then came her passage through the Suez Canal, and mto the Mediterranean. News has not yet been received as to what ports she touched at during her run to Gibraltar and then northward to the English Channel port where, only four days ago, she finally dropped anchor. °As might be expected, the has yielded its full measure of incideit. Flat calms and storms, fair winds ana foul, and all the usual chances and changes of seafaring have fallen to those who have sailed in her. The bulk of her travelling has been through tropical seas and the yacht has touched at some of the Pacific islands where civilisation is still in its infancy. Now and again, there have been touches of humour, quite unexpected, but none the less welcome. When outward bound it was found that the passage through the Panama Canal would, on the basis of the schedule charges, really work out that the Canal authorities were slightly indebted to the vaoht, and that she would go through, free of charge. Not Seeking Treasure. "When through the Canal, Lieutenant Muhlhauser made enquiries about a visit to the Galapagos islands, but the EcUadorean consui was strongly opposed to any such call, jumping to the conclusion that the Amaryllis was bound on a search for buried pirate loot. Just about that time a very old man, who probably had done some seafaring m his days, was reported to hold the secret of where pirate treasure was located on the Galapagos Islands, and the. Ecuadorean Government was anxious riot to! let any wandering yachtsman Tift the hidden booty. Anyway, it is understood that not long afterwards the old man was transferred from the islands to Ecuador. The Amaryllis did not find—or look for—any treasure at those sultry, islands. When at an island port in the western Pacific, Lieutenant Muhlhauser came into friendly touch with a wcathy American man of commerce who was making a pleasure cruise. Apivir-mtiy hTffnever known the full allurement of adventure. The humdrum daily round of home and business life had been his portion. And here was adventure, fulf-blooded deeo-sea 'adventure, beckoning him afloat with an insistence he could not deny. So, after a little chat with the skipper ot the he decided to make a top to Sydney in the yacht. "Not for a Million Dollars." On that trip the little packet encountered a spell of vulainous weather. JSor Ser two days, she was battened down, 35 like a cork, rode gallantly overjhe big hills of roiling water lne Amen can then drunk deeply of the cup ot adventure. At last the gale blew iteelt out, the yacht headed on her course tor the Australian port, where «due course she safely arrived When m Sydney, the American citizen said to ?hTyacht's master: "How'anything made by the hand of man can withstand such buffeting quite beats me. 1 would not sell my memory of those days of storm for a million dollars.' Then, as an afterthought—and with full em-phasis-be addeS: "But .if a man came down that companion-way this moment, and offered me a million dollars to go through it all again, I d say, 'Nothing doing.' " . There have been various changes in the personnel of the Amaryllis since she slipped quietly away from an English Channel port, bound round the world. Three friends then sailed with Lieutenant Muhlhauser, but these, apparently sated with the sea, left the vessel in the West Indies. Then came the shipping of new hands. Stephane, a French boy from one of the islands, was engaged, and he apparently has remained in the yacht to the time of her arrival in England last week. Next a Panama Indian, known as Sam, was engaged. Sam's sailing in the Amaryllis terminated in Auckland. Paid off in this port, he was engaged on a wellknown local deep-sea vacht, and, later, tiring of a life afloat, he is understood to have gone to work on a farm. Other Changes in the Crew. When the Amaryllis left Auckland over a year ago, there sailed in her, in addition to her owner, a young Melbourne yachtsman, Mr Tadge.l, and two paid hands. These were btephane and a big Niue Islander, named Joe. At an East Indian port Joe left the yacht, and apparently his place was taken by a young Belgian. Not every seaman would look kmdly upon a deep-sea cruise in so small a vessel as the Amaryllis, and naturally changes among her crew were to be anticipated. . The cablegram received in Auckland states merely that the yacht has arrived at Dartmouth. In all probability this keel of adventure came quietly into port, made fast, and concluded her momentous round-the-world cruise with as little tuss and flurry as if 6he had merely returned from a cruise to a, near-by port. So it was with her departure from England. Then she slipped away without ceremonial, almost without a good-Dye. An official put the question as she east olf, "Where are you bound " and the answer was "Round the world." "Good-bye, and good luck,'' was the answer. And so the Amaryllis stood out to sea.