THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 26, 23 November 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise

What ho what ho % ma hearties. Ave've certainly had a long dry spell haAen't Ave. In fact OAer here on Whale Island, it was so dry that last week my well dried up and We all had to drink lemonade. Of course the pet> didn't mind, but it 'worked out rather expensive. Last Aveokend there Ave re dozens and dozens of Maoris over here all hunting mutton birds. I sat on the crag just by my front gate i and spent quite some time watching them through ,my ultra-poAverful infra-red-ray telescope. They reminded me of the time I Avent narwhal hunting. ; By the I don't think 1 ever told you about that. It was a moss't extraordinarily breathtaking experience. It happened one time some years ago. There Ave,re seA'en of us altogether, and Ave Avere on our Avay to the States by schooner. It AA T as our own schooner and AA r e Avere more oi: less just on a holiday trip. We. had been ploughing through the Pacific Ocean for days on end and were all feeling rather fed up Avith the mono tony ? Avhen suddenly Narwhal Island hove in sight off the port quarter, M\l (Uchi't pay mucli attention to it ? until someone suggested a spot of narwhal hunting. Of course Ave all brightened up at the idea and it Avasn't long before Ave Avere safely anchored under the lee of the island. Now I don't know hoAA' man}* of you haA*e e\*er seen a narwhal. It* is a sea animal with tusks; it can light rather well; and it makes excellent soup. Anyway, none of us had ever hunted one before, so we didn't quite 'know how to .start. We could see plenty of them playing about in the surf and craAvling up on to the beach ;> and lying on the rocks, and none of them appeared to be so we didn't anticipate any difficulty. We landed shortly after and all sat down on the beach to decide how to start. Suddenly Rufus (the cook) hit upon a brilliant scheme.

But shiver my timbers sailors, it's time I started on the rest of the page. I'll finish the story next week. P.T.W.