A ROMANCE OF THE PACIFIC

Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 4

A ROMANCE OF THE PACIFIC

SWEDISH SAILOR WHO BECAME KING STOCKHOLM, September 11. A Fetter to Sweden from the island of Tabor, in the Pacific, tells a wonderful advnture of the king ol the Polyesia tribe, who is a Swede by birth, and now wants to resign in order to settle down in his home country, Karl Pettersson, as his name is, was a sailor on a ship which thirty ears ago capsized not far off the coast - New’ Guinea. Pettersson was the only survivor, and eceeded in reaching a small Pacific land, where he was at once surmnded by a tjribe of cannibals. Dur■g the preparation of the feast tho aughter of the tribal king fell in love vilh the prisoner, who was thus saved from a cruel fate, and she actually persuaded her father to marry her to Pettersson, who after the death of the native king became the ruler of the island. Being a clear-sighted man, King Pettersson realised the commercial value of the island’s natural resources, and brought prosperity to the huts of his subjects. His brown wife having died some twentv years ago. King Pettersson travelled‘to Sweden, and married there one Miss Simpson, of Geylo, who accompanied her royal husband to Tabor, and became as popular as the king. Being now sixtv-five years of age, King Pettersson has decided to abdicate and to return to his native city of Gothenburg. The succession of the Tabor throne is secured, but ms subjects are disconsolate at the decision of their ruler.