CHRISTMAS GEOGRAPHY.
Christmas has its geography as well as its festivity, and curiously enough most of the place names associated with the name are far from cheerful. There are three Christmas Islands —one in the Pacific covered with guano, where Captain Cook kept up one Christmastide. one in the Indian Ocean, forest-covered, and having a population of about 40, and another on the ice-bound coast of Cape Breton There is a Christmas Cove, which sounds inviting, and as a matter of fact is a seaside resort on the coast of Maine, U.S.A. Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen Land, a haunt of seals, and Christmas Sound amid the stormy seas around Cape Holm. But Natal, "the garden of South Africa," also has the. Christmas associations, in that it is so-called because one, Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese navigator, discovered it on Christmas Day, 1497.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3275, 20 December 1916, Page 63
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