CRUISING IN THE PACIFIC.

Shannon News, 1 April 1927, Page 4

CRUISING IN THE PACIFIC.

A^CttTIUBBriJLEXPERIENCE. , The exploits of two American girl journalists now in... the Pacific are Jorthy pf special mention (says the uciland Star). They came over in tjhe.ship, Bougainville as ?'officer and after visiting Fiji, went on to Noumea. ;From. there they have yisited.New Hebrides. Their names are jS/Lisa Viola Irene; Cooper and Miss jfoan tSehoen, both of New ;York.

* At Noumea they rented a bungalow and t Miss. Cpeper writes: ''lt was great fun, in a trppical garden with Javenese* servants.?' At the end of January, Miss* Sehpen went off in a small schooner round -the Loyalty Islands, while Miss" Cooper went in. a small steamer, the St.'Michael, to cruise through all the-islands'„ef the New: Hebrides. -She that there is- still plenty, of roipance in-the Islands. She says: "I haye.gazed upon- ex-cannibals, who wore do 'but a vrod- through their noses and -boar's teeth around their qecks, and I have been on islands where there are still plenty . of cannibalism, men-actively, engaged in human flesh ejating. I have been on board this ship 'While.at anchor at the; foot of a live yelcahp, with ashes falling en our faces a|s we, paced the deck. Once we were caught in the tail of a hurricane and nearly wrecked on the,fangs of a rjeef, and the last time we .were at P|ort -Vila,, the capital, wo experienced a series of terrific unremitting earthquakes, continuing for, three days. At the end of that time six places in the mountains opened up. and steam, poure;d fprth.. One preyed to be a new hot storing... /Everyone village was .and we .expected a" volcano to .spring .out of the water or become vdsible the mountain at any .moment. "We were anchored in the bay at tJieV, time)' but could ..feel the quakes as'lplainjyias thojigh,;we were on land." \ Aiaong some,,,of;.ihe'...-,. most intense sensations . Miss* / Cooper had was a idjance,'of which she says: ''The other. njight the natives .gaye a ..pilu pilu, -. a ,War dance. ■ They , permitted Miss Scheenand me to dance ,wi|hthem. It • ; vfas' :the most thrilling experience iwe ihaye had ever,-nothing excepted. The tomtoms carried ;ypu i away completely, *ahd you "were ..filled* with the warrior .spirit. !W& used •.sticks, .but to us they m ere -quite' as -important, as')'.the tomahawks rwielded by- ihe natives. It was "a'f -wonderful■-, experience and ; one we i.sjujuld.', .never *.*have. •-forgiven".. ourselves for missing. l " • ; l At the. New r Hebrides- Miss.Xlppper Jack Lphdoni'-s tSnark;'. v ..Wliic - a/'J'i: still-there, -haying beeh -ief t, wken Len-; dpn was taken)-so Jill he had te go on to Sydney .by steamer. - - ;