SAILING THROUGH BOILING WATER.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 4 September 1906, Page 7

SAILING THROUGH BOILING WATER.

New Zealand's boiling lake ( I arawera). about portions ol which tourists arc ferried by guides in a boat after being" warned to "sit down, and not dangle their hands in the water." lint a voyage through .">•» miles ol 1 mid-ocean hot springs embodies the elements of a greater sensation than thai. A special despatch dated Now York. March 29, to the San Francisco "Chronicle," states After sailing through miles ol water so hot that the cook declared he was able to boil eggs in the steam that arose from it, the British steamer Lothian arrived here to-day from Japan and China. The boiling water is supposed to have been caused by submarine | volcanic disturbances, and and altogether it is figured that the Lothian ! steamed through fifty ini'les of the j mid-ocean hot springs. The ship was I between Hongkong and Cubu. and was making twelve knots an hour in a tranquil sea when the water began to boil. The mate of the Lothian said to-day that the first knowledge \hey had of the boiling water was when the ocean all around the ship began to crackle like the noise of burning wood. At the same lime the ocean began to bubble. The atmosphere 2.") it. above the s"a was perfects clear, but below that lhc steam arose until it was condensed by the air. No distinct shock was lelt, but the ship trembled like it had chills and fever.