CRUISE ROUND WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 304, 23 November 1937, Page 7

CRUISE ROUND WORLD.

MOVEMENTS OF CAP PILAR. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Nov. 22. The first information to reach New Zealand of the movements of the English barquentine Cap Pilar, which left Auckland on September 17 to continue her cruise around the world, has been received by the parents of Mr Sutherland, a lawyer, who came from Paeroa to join the ship. His letter was posted from Mangareva, which the sailing ship reached in the second week of October. When the Cap Pilar left Auckland it was thought that Captain Seligman, master and owner, intended to go by easy stages to San Francisco, and until the vessel reached Mangareva the crew shared this opinion. Now, however, Mr Sutherland says the Cap Pilar is going by way of the Marquesas Islands and possibly of Tahiti, to South America. Here, lie thinks, they will call at Valparaiso, Lima and Panama. Although the work on board was hard for some days before the New Zealanders became accustomed to it, Mr Sutherland says the voyage to Mangareva was very interesting and he enjoyed his first visit to the South Seas islands thoroughly. The Marquesas Mantis are a .volcanic group in Polynesia which has been a French protectorate since 1842. The name applies to four or five islands and the total area is 492 square miles.