The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-11-26
FIRST CARGO IN YEARS
FINEST GRADE NATURAL CARGO
EVER ENTERING L. ;.
British Bark Had Remarkable Trip.
Left PeScadoreS Before the War
Broke.

Broke.
The British bark Harold, Captain
Jenkins. lies at the docks of the
Planters Fertilizer company with the
first cargo of Peruvian guano to come
to this port in three years. In the
single hold of the staunch sailing
ship are 5000 tons of the very finest
stock, Peruvian guano, that has ever
been brought into this country COM
ing from hitherto unworked deposits
located on the Pescadores Islands,
lust seven miles off the coast OF
Peru.
The consignment of the Harold is
to the Nitrate Agencies companies TOR
which extensive business the Charles
ton Agencies company is local agent,
and it will be stored at the Planters
works for the present. Captain Jen-
kins came to the city yesterday al
ternoon to confer with local agents,
and discharge through his three
matches will commence at once. The
bark is about two-thirds full. Her
net registry is 1929 tons, and her
gross registry 1876 tons.
Thrilling Trip.
The Harold left the Pescadores Is
lands for Charleston on June 80,
month before the outbreak Of war
in Europe little dreaming that she
was to be fired upon by man-of-
war of her own nationality Mon
mouth, sunk recently in battle OF
Caronel, it was that brought her to
that she was to weave tortuous
course through waylaying German
cruisers, that she would be compell-
ed to seek port before making her
destination, for the sake of prevent
ing starvation of her crew, and that
she was to lose the German mem
bers of her crew at that port-the
Barbados.
The islands at which the Harold
took on her valuable cargo, which is
arousing such interest among fertl-
lizer men of the section, constitute
one of several groups just off the Pc
ruvian coast, which are famous as
repositories Of Peruvian or seafoWl
guano, a term which is corruption
of Spanish "huano," meaning dung.
The better known of these groups
are the Lobos, Guanape and Macabi.
The Pescadores are under lease by
the Peruvian government to the Pc
ruvian Corporation, a venture inau-
gurated and directed by a number OF
English capitalists, who have as
charter object the development OF
the natural resources of Peru. Re-
Gently the Peruvian Corporation has
become known to the world through
it's connection with the controversy,
which brought to light the alleged
Putumayo rubber atrocities.
A Rich Guano Find.
The Pescadores group consists Of
three small barren islands of volcan-
ic origin. They swarm with sea
birds of many species, and there is
no other life upon them. The region
is unvisited by storms and rains, and
the waters around simply TEEN with
fish. During the mating season,
when no one is allowed to molest the
birds by visiting the islands, the sur
face of the ground from shore to
shore is literally covered with birds,
chief among them numerically being
the pelican, cormorant, and alba
tross. Three years ago, following a
marked falling off of deposits, the
Peruvian government secured the
services of Professor Harper, of the
Liverpool museum, for the purpose
of investigation. Professor Harper
discovered that Peruvian fishermen
were dynamiting fish in waters ad-
jacent to the islands, and thus de-
stroying the food supply which pro-
duced birds and deposits. This calls
to mind the famous Darwinian clo-
verfield-mouse-cat illustration.
Hills of Fertilizer.
Hills of sea fowl guano several
hundred feet in height were discover
ed on these islands, hills that have
been centuries in the forming. The
poorer grades of this the finest natu-
raj fertilizer known is on the sur
face of these hills. Sprinkled
throughout the deposits are dead
fish, feathers, seaweed and the car
casses of young birds.
Evaporation in the extremely dry