The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-01-14
The Isles of the BEST.
Lands which White MRHE Foot Ills
MnNRr Trnh.

Lands which White Mans Foot Has
Never TrOd.
The cruisers engaged i'll watching
the expectation of Iaborers from islands
of the South Pacific ocean fell in with
strange places and strange people. At
New Hanover, Capt. Simson, of her
maicsty's ship Blanche, found men and
women very much in a state of NATURE ;
he thinks that they had mover before
been visited by white men. They were
ignorant of tho use of tobacco, and any
old pieces of paper were taken by them
in preference to the usual trade articles.
Both men and women came along III
great numbers, and showed no fear.
They had little or nothing for barter
oxcpt spears. They appeared good
humored, but are arrant thieves. A
party Of officers landed, and except that
their pockets were picked were in no
way molcstod. Capt. Simpson, when
off the coast Of New Britain, took an
opportunity of perpetuating his name
and hat of his ship. He found two
spacious bays or harbors with good an
ohorage, land locked, and sheltered
from all winds. One, which he has
called Blanche bay, has been formed by
the %uphoaving of three volcanic oun
tains called the Mother and Daughters !;
the lava poured down in past ages has
formed two points which he mentions
rs Point Sulphur and Point Bridges.
Simpson Harbor, about five miles long
and three wide, lies between Point
Bridges and the main land he believes
there is space, with from twenty to
twenty-five fathoms of water, for the
navies of the world to anchor in.
About q mile south from Point
Bridges, with deep water round them,
are two remarkable sandstone rocks,
both standing on the same base, which
is about q quarter of a mile in circum-
ference, and edged with coral, the gap
between them being covered by n few
feet of water. Tho largest of these
rocks is sixty or seventy yards in cir
oumference, and Uses porpendicularly
TO a height Of nearly two hundred feet,
and though there is not a vestige of
soil upon it, stunted trees cling here
and there to itsE perpendicular sides,
aud on the small platform at its base
there aro a few o6ooanut trees. But the
most remarkable thing that is clustered
on the narrow ledge which %surrounds
these rocks and which is partly under
water, is a village containing about two
hundred inhabitants, who evidently
support themselves by fishing. Many
of these houses are built in the water
on piles. They had numerous canoes
moored around them. Capt. Simp-
son mas named those rocks the Beehives.
They form nm additional protection to
Simpson Harbor. He found in the Nj
garik group Of islands only one inhab-
tied, and the people have n short his
tory. There are about n hundred of
them, and no less thnn sixty are chill
dren. The people say that about forty
years ago n captain from Sydney took
the island. and destroyed the inhabit-
ants, or nearly every souI some years
after that a man named Paddy came
with some natives of Ponope island and
settled there, claiming the island rs his
own, and the population has since rap
idly increased. What has become of
Paddy is not stated London Times.