THE YACHTING VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2620, 1 June 1877, Page 3

THE YACHTING VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.

By a coincidenqe hot less remarkable than it is significant, it is proposed to make a pleasure voyage round the world just three hundred years after the circumnavigation of the globe by the'first Englishman who accomplished the feat-—Sir Francis Drake—and one hundred years after the departure of Captain Cook on his last and fatal enterprise. It was 1577 that Drake started on .^2is journey, from Falmouth to Plymouth via the Cape of Good Hope; it was in 1777 that Cook first sighted the islands where his glorious career came to an ignominious end; and now in 1877 another expedition on circumnavigation bent, is to set sail from England: not, however, under the hard condition which the early navigators had to face, but in circumstances which will make a minimum of the peril and a maximan of the pleasure. In brief, it is proposed to despatch a first-class steam-ship of not less than two thousand tons burden, and fitted with all the comforts that

modern art and science can suggest, on a

voyage round the globe, commencing in August nest, and, ending about April or May of the year of grace, 1878. The novelty of such a pleasure trip, its unprecedented character, and the interest which must always attach to such an expedition, entitle it to most particular attention. Scarborough, Norway, Switzerland, and other of the fashionable holiday reaorts are thus likely this year, to find their attractions superseded in a good many quarters by those of Abyssinia and Japan, the bright islands of the Pacific, or the even yet unhackneyed mountains, plains, cities, and up-country ranches of Mexico and Peru., Certainly a lounge round the world in a luxurious floating craft, without the trouble of so much as packing or unpacking a solitary portmanteau on the way, ig as

tempting a programme as ever was set before a frse man. It is none the less tempting that the alteration of the date of starting from April to A ugnst allows the traveller not only ••■ •.ri-'-r-nvilily f'^.py the London sea on, but \'o Inve at 1-ast a few da^'a "Vi :he nioors before he goes. A good many, <ie übfless, who care comparatively li!iU> about tin August trip to Spain, will (•••■'u be able to wait for the opening, of th." j ai-Lridgo season and join the yacht at lU^rsiilloa. Ir is considered certain that berths will bo well occupied before the vessel quits Kuropcan waters. Full particulars of the trip may bn had of the agents, Messrs Grindlay and Co., 55, Parliament street, London.—Home News. ,