SIXTEEN WEEKS AT SEA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 4

SIXTEEN WEEKS AT SEA.

: NEW YORK TO WELLINGTON. ; Sixteen . weeks at sea" with the- Christmas' period included. This., has been the, experience of the four-masted barque Andromeda, which" arrived* fwm New York .yesterday. As far.j3jick\ as November 20 •she put to•• sea from-New. York and was ; just 116 ' days.\but iylien';' slie cast anchor' -in the stream • yesterday. •At the out--set -of - the voyage the Andromeda was mot by southerly: gales, .which continued till December 16.' r : The wind at times blew with hurricane force; and mountainous ; seas surrounded tho vessel. .'A period;of fine weather, followed and;on reaching latitude 19 N..'the trade winds were picked up. Tho Andromeda crossed the Line after 40 days;;and'in latitude 3 S.Vshe fell in the-5.15; trades. .weather was,. no\V:!;.Very'''squally and* the Andromeda - receiveda. "dusting" . vrliich caused l^er^o. part, with 1 soirie of.her! canvas; Good :progress, however, was :made arid on .January. 17 the crew'were cheered >itti 'the: sight'of .land;'in the.shape of tho . lonely little spot in the »Atlantic called Gough Island. Seven days later, the'meridian of the Capo'of Good Hope was passed aiid the vessel, still making glow progress, commenced' to run down the.Easting in 42 south.'-On February 5,when, in longitude; G8 ; .E.', she 'was buffeted by a heavy' ;gale. from the west, but-, after: that '-fine .; continued "until'.Cape Farewell' was. ; sighted., The navigation of Cook Strait was not completed- without the .usual-difficulties, and on Monday the ship'.'was hove to under lower main topsail until tho fierce nor'wester had spent itself. Anchor 1 was drbpped in the stream at half-past five o'clock yesterday, afternoon.