WONDERFUL NAVIGATION.
In the course of a lecture at Wellington, *i marvellously long distant s«.iui'ncy by sea, without a <"o n pa's 3 was momionerl hy Sh ilobort Scout ac having cmi.u.i ler iiH pejbO'ui ooH^t vjiiO'i uU.in^'ii ti'ip to S-inuj. A paity o£ young inon arriviil ia tha pldoe, alter having iravellod over 80U inilea wita only the etuio to gaide them. A«)«>cher c\se of nxt»redt which Sir .Robert mentioned waa a trip undertaken recently by a puny of M-)Ofie, wiio put to 82& iii a canoe, and by following the instructions cojifuiued in a legendary song of the doings* and travels of their ancestors, were able to pick out theii way by certain constellations and reach the destination started for.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 59, 16 October 1900, Page 3
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122WONDERFUL NAVIGATION. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 59, 16 October 1900, Page 3
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