World Hunt for Orchids.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1922, Page 4

World Hunt for Orchids.

LONDON, May 1. A wealthy young scientist, Dr (’• Lockhart Cottle, is to set forih in three weeks, en a three years’ glorious adventure. Ills programme . includes a search for new orchids ill remote flouth Sea Islands on liehall of Sir Jeremiah Colman, the famous collector, the photographing of cannibals and native tribes in central Xorlh New Guinea, and the bombing of big lisli of now species in uncharted rivers. ilis little ship of adventmo, the Malaya, an auxiliary schooner of III) tons, slipped into her berth yesterday in the St' Katharine’s Docks, E.. the same berth as the late Sir Ernest Sliaokleton’s ship, the Quest, occupied before starting on her Antarctic voyage. She is a trim little boat, small but stocky. She has been entirely refitted for the journey, being, converted into a comfortable home for the party ol eleven or more adventurers, who will live in her. All sorts of alluring stores were being crowded into her bolds yesterday, ineluding special eases to hold the priceless orchids winch Dr Cottle hopes to discover, big game rifles and shot guns of every description, fishing tackle, scientific instruments, medical stores, pocket wireless telephone sets, and many other things. For bombing big fish Mills hand grenades, ns used)

by infantrymen during the war,, are to he taken, ' A Liverpool man, of 3d, Dr Co Die has always been interested in scientific research, and has long dreamed o! suck, a journey, llis proposed route holds lnlt ay iltscimitiiig names, l , 'iotu St Katharine's Doeh the Malaya v. ill call at a t'hannei port and tlience to Urest, Lisbon, Madeira, Canary islands, and then down to ISdeg X. Approximate, and along that parallel with the X.K. trades to one of the French West Indies probable Martinique, and on to Trinidad, Coion. Panama, Hallapagos Isles, Marquc-ns. Maunliiki Islands. Phoenix Islands, Gilbert Islands, Kojo- ' men Island., North New Guinea, Vie I Islands. Malaccas, .S.F. I’.miUM mvrs, 1 Singapore. Penang. and the North Sh--1 matra hinterland.' | “Last November,” said Dr Cottle to jo Daily Mail ieportcr yesterday, "we I e, e sed' in Hr many in the Malaya and i encountered some tenible weuthei. i We weie In.ve to for two days with the ; wheel lashed down, and baldly dared .'s' ow our noses above de ck, hut we ’ ! made port little the worse for wear. • efbe Marconi Company are giving me a wireless installation, and I shall j carry a pocket instrument when I go i into the jungle, with which I s! j"h j K ' . able to ki.p in dose touch with the , ship. "j have got together a very trust- . worthy new, but 1 am still needing . more melt, and particularly a Sea j- Scout."