The San Francisco call., 1897-01-18
The Yacht Azalene TO Take
an Exploring Party to
Australasia.
Science and Pleasure Will Be
Combined in the
Cruise.
Whalers Seen at Work Off Pigeon
Point From the Deck of the
OriZaba.

The schooner.yacht Azalene is being
fitted out at Sausalito for long cruise in
the Southern seas. 1t will be mainly
pleasure trip, but scientific matters will
not be overlooked. The vessel is owned
by Captain NJ. r. Roberts and she will
be in command of Captain George Wesley
Jackson, late of the British navy. Both
the owner and captain have been all over
Australasia and it is the intention of Cap
tain Roberts to visit every island in the
archipelago.
Captain Jackson is well known in San
Francisco as a civil engineer, having been
interested in the formation and building
of Stow Lake and the beautifying Of
Straw berry Hill.
From here the vessel will make for the
Hawaiian Islands and from there will go
to Samoa, Tongatabu, Fiji Australia,
New Zealand. the New Hebrides, Tahiti,
the Marshall group and last but not least
New Guinea. Every place will be thor
oughly explored and in consequence the
party expects to be gone at least three
years. On his return Captain Roberts
expects TO have obtained vast amount of
valuable information and to have at least
boatioad CT curios
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
Orizaba arrived from Mexican ports last
evening, after an unusually rough trip.
At Santa Rosaia they were unable to
make a landing, and Captain Won Helms
had TO procee d on to Guaymas, where be
landed his passengers and cargo. Al
Santa Rosalta he saw the American
schooner Fannie Adele riding at anchor,
passing Pigeon Point Captain Won Helms
reports that he saw two whaleboats after
a hum pback. One of the boats struck the
mammal, and the last the people on the
Orizaba saw of the fight was the whale
making bee line out to sea with the boat
in tow. Should the hunters secure the
animal they will make enough out of the
oil they can try out OF 1t 10 return them a
good weeks wages.
The steam schooner National City,
bound south, put in here yesterday to land
the chief engineer. The hief has been a
very sick man for some time, and when off
the Farallones he notified the captain that
be could not proceed any further. It was
then that the National City was headed
for San Francisco.
The barkentine Catherine Sudden, over
whose safety some anxiety was felt, has at
last arrived at Grays Harbor. She left
San Diego twenty-five days ago, and
should have reached her destination a
fortnight ago. The captain of the vessel
reports a succession of light end contrary
winds from the time he LETT San Diego.
Over twenty Chinese from Ell Paso
created a scene at the ferries yesterday.
They had been deported from Texas and
are on their way TO China. They were
like driven cattle and had not the faintest
idea what was TO be done until one of
their countrymen from Jackson street
explained the situation. Then their forti-
tude forsook them and they cried like so
many babies. 1t did them no good, how
ever, and the next steamer for China will
take them back to the land which it has
probably cost them all their hard-earned
money to leave. They have viewed their
FL Dorado only to lose it.