"Repeat Signal."
t In her "West African Studies" Miss Mary Kingsley tells the following capital anecdote : — One day a Bristol trading vessel ran up an urgent signal to a passing mail steamer for a doctor, and the captain ' thereof having run up a signal of assent, the doctor went below to get his medicines ready. Meanwhile, instead of displaying patient gratitude, the Bristolman signalled, " Repeat signal." " Give it 'em again," said the captain of the mail steamer. " Those Bristolmen ain't got no Board schools." < Still the Bristolman kept bothering, I running up her original signal, and in < due course off went the doctor to her 1 in the gig. When he returned, the captain asked — ' " Pills, are they all mad on board ' that vessel, or merely drunk as usual ?" ! "Well," said the doctor, "that's curious, for its the same question Captain N has asked about you. He is very anxions about your mental health, and wants to know why you keep on signalling, ' Hani to, or I will fire into you ! " An investigation of the code and the steamer's signal supported the Bristolman's reading, and the subject was dropped in steam circles.
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Manawatu Herald, 15 July 1899, Page 3
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192"Repeat Signal." Manawatu Herald, 15 July 1899, Page 3
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