CAMPBELL ISLAND.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 21

CAMPBELL ISLAND.

~0 :B s ZDiTvr. ► :x»* nn:ss. . *\l v name has. mentioned .""Annexion with the Campbell Island Iters. {i raftv ~ vorth r" tin « Klines in es»hn*rn,<. ;,nd cluaMion of the talc "fte facts arc that. ,m rlo shore o 'verancc Harbour « Campbell k'lßd the re!TluanV 0! a f od hut ■J , white pebble .path lading. up ''- and in the neighbourhood is a * 0 f heather. The rest is niostv tb Undoubtedly when standing i If. hut I told Charlie E.yre of the trWrecked Dundonald, tho legend tT» daughter of Prince Charlie had there; and I would also have told J . , t t he same tmio tho tale was if a woman over lived there, : ff« 5 probably one leit with some of sealers 011 tho island. The f,rv of the laborious making of the ,1 i« a late accretion. *Ut us turn for :i moment to his--«rr Prince Charlie died m I<BS, f' nneiion with Miss A\ ijkingshnw somewhere in tho fifties <;>r the SeSh c.'nturv. and their ctaughin ITS'J. Campbell Island wa s 5g5&«W IM» Towards th. .11 of 1810. a staling civw ot sis men ~s left on Cample!! Island. In I'-11. aiwrt (after whom Stewart Is and arrived at Campuell find only one of the six alive, the iw having hcon drowned. L, other scaling gangs were lert Z rt ana one of these may have tj. 'the hut. The discoverer of the Vmu Hasselourough. was with ot.iers drowned there, when his boat vras \mongst the others was . a '•/OTg woman. Elizabeth Farr, a native fsM Island H ,s to bo ro -i»asbered that at that .time (1810) Vorfallt was a convict station. The problem is out oMhes?? facts to the lepenil.—Yours, etc.. KOBT. M. TAISO. Ciiinere nil!.'. Aognit Utli, 1031.