CRUISE OF THE SIRIUS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 100, 30 March 1937, Page 7

CRUISE OF THE SIRIUS

BOOK ON HER ADVENTURES. There are 2,500,000 Italians in Australia, an Italian Suez Canal pilot insists. “It is in the school bgoks, so must be true,” he says. In his book. “Northward Ho,” Mr Harold Nossiter, of Lane Cove, writes of meeting him and vainly attempting to convince him otherwise. The book, just puoblished, is a graphic description of Mr Nossiter s voyage from Sydney to Plymouth with his two sons in the Sydney-built 35ton schooner yacht Sirius. Calls during the northward journey, by way of the Suez Canal, were made at unusual places such as Tenah, Merah Bay (Dutch New Guinea), where the natives were most friendly, Buton Island, near the Celebes; Komodo, where they failed to see any “dragons,” Pulo Langkawi. off Penang, and Spinalonga (Crete), where the peasants refused to take payment, making signs that the yachtsmen were guests. They also went through the Corinth Canal. During a gale at night off Buton, 70 flying-fish were blown aboard and piled up against the lee rail. Australian shillings were most popular at Buton, where they were used for making necklaces. Mr Nossiter first set foot in Europe at Piraeus, which he found dirty and dusty. At Ceplialoni in the lonian Islands, once occupied by Britain, only three persons knew English.