A WORLD'S CRUISE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13979, 8 February 1909, Page 5

A WORLD'S CRUISE.

THE CAMBRIAN DEPARTS. AN INTERESTING ITINERARY. On Saturday last H.M.S. Cambrian left Auckland on a nine months' cruise round the world. She will proceed first to Rarotonga, in response to the requisitions made by the authorities there, in order to impress the natives of the Northern Islands, principally those, of Rakabanga, who have lately been troublesome, and who, some months ago, hauled down the British flag. From there the Cambrian will go to Fanning Island, the Pacific cable station, and thence on to Honolulu. After visiting various pans of the South American coast, the warship will go to Easter Island. The latter lies midway between Tahiti and the South American coast., and possesses special interest on account of its wonderful ruins and colossal images. The next, island to be visited will bo Piteaiui Island, the home, of nearly 200 of the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty. This island is out of the track of sailing vessels ami steamers, and is visited every few years by a British man-of-war, which generally takes to the inhabitants boxes of clothes and other comforts sent out by charitable people from Home. The Cambrian goes from Piteaim Island to Papeete, the French metropolis of tho Eastern Pacific, and after that to Fiji. She returns to England thence by way of the Torres Straits, calling at several of the Dutch possessions, Batavia, and other places en route.