SEABORNE MESSAGES.
MR WRAGGE'S EXPERIENCES. (Fkom Our Own Correspondent.'
AUCKLAND, April 22. During his voyages Mr Clement L. Wragge, the well-known meteorologist, La in the habit of casting papers enclosed in bottles adrift, and some of these papers which have been returned to him made most remarkable journeys. One bottla thrown overboard north-east of Samoa was picked up by a savage on an isitfl near the Ladrones, and the paper was worshipped by him as a message from hia God until the advent of a missionary dispossessed him of his obsession. Then the convert gave the paper to the missionary, who returned it to Air Wragge. Another paper has just returned after five years' buffeting by the ocean. It was thrown overboard off Oape Horn in lat. 54.27 S., long. 6.40 W., on December 25, 1904, while Mr Wragge was on s. voyage from Wellington to London, and was picked up' at Kaipara South Head, en the west coast of the North Island, towards the end of last year, and haa just been forwarded to Mr Wragge.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2928, 27 April 1910, Page 29
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