The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-01-08
THE YACHT NYANzA.
A Pretty Vessel Mistaken for the Casco
Captain Dewar, Il. A., and Party
WIN Star n Shnrt Time

A Pretty Vessel Mistaken for the CascO
Captain Dewar, Il. A., and Party
win Stay Short Time.
Monday week at 2:S0 O'Clock p. m.
the yacht Casco, with Robert Louis
Stevenson and party, was reported to be
three miles off. An ADVERTISER reporter
going off to meet the expected visitor
about two hours later met Mr.. and Mrs.
J. D. Strong being rowed homeward, who
gave the information that the arrival
was not the Casco but the Nyanza.
The boatmen were ordered to proceed
and on rounding the Inter-Island Steam
Navigation Company's wharf the stran-
ger was seen beyond the lighthouse in
an almost dead calm. On reaching the
vessels side the reporter was courteously
received on board by a genial English
man, who invited him into The cabin to
receive report of the vessel and her
voyage hither.
The yachting party consists OF Captain
and Mrs. Dewar and Mr.. H. Stevenson,
OF England. From another source it is
learned that the head of the party is a
Captain in the Prince of Wales Hussars,
travelling on two years furlough in his
yacht The vessel was at Callao when
the U. S. S. Alert was there, and q
group OF that ships officers expressed
pleasure on hearingo of the yachts arrival.
The Nyanza is composite schooner
of 2l8 tons, built by Messrs. Steele
on the Clyde in 1867. She is comforta-
bly, and elegantly finished and furnished,
is graceful in every respect nauticaliy,
and looked quite taut and trim on enter
ing the harbor, Notwithstanding that she
had come direct from the South Seas.
Captain Robert Hunt is sailing master of
the Nyanza, with complement all told
OF eighteen men.
The Nyanza sailed from England on
July 81, 1887, arriving in the Pacific via
the Straits of Magellan and Smythe's
Channel. She left Callao on the 18th of
July, 1888, reaching Easter Island on
August 9th; thence on the 10th she
arrived at Fatau-hiva, Marquesas Is
lands, August Goth. Two other islands
of the group were visited, and Nuka-hiva
was left on September 5th. The yacht
arrived at Tahiti on September 18th ard
remained until the 25th. Her next point
was the harbor OF Pago-pago, the port
coded to the United States III Samoa,
which was reached on October Sd.
Thence she sailed on the 9th for Apia,
arriving the following day. Leaving
there on the 9th she went to Tongatabu,
and from there on the 18th arrived at
Suva, FIJI, on the 23d Three days later
the Nyanza sailed for New Caledonia,
reaching there on the 30th and leaving
on November 9th for the New Hebrides
She reached ETomanga, denominated
as blood-stained" in missionary an
nails, on the 10th. Here the party were
we'll received by Rev. II. A. Robertson,
a missionary of the Canadian Presby-
terrain Church, whose passage through
Honolulu on returning from a vacation
was noted in the local press four years
ago. The islands of Sandwich, Malli-
colo and Espiritu Santo were visited,
and the yacht left the New Hebrides on
November 10th. She arrived at Vanua
Lava, Banks group, on the Dist, leaving
on the 25th thence reaching the island
of Santa Cruz on the 9th, she sailed for
Honolulu December LIST.
The Nyanza will remain in this port
ten days or fortnight, and before leav-
ing the group will visit the other islands.
From hence she will sail for San Fran
cisco.