Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-23
Joined TO WORLD
People of Tristan da Cunha No
Longer Isolated.
Installation of Wireless Telearaphy
Will End Seclusion Which, They
Seem to Have Enjoyed.


Tristan da Cunha is the genera
name for a group of three small vol
canic islands belonging to Great Brit
ain situated in the South Atlantic
about 1000 miles west of the Cape of
Good Hope and about 1000 miles
northeast Of Cape Horn. Tristan, the
largest and northerilmost island, has
| an area of 16 square miles, is circular
| in form, about seven miles in diane
ter and has a volcanic cone (7640
feet), usually capped with snow, in
the center. 1t sometimes happens
that Tristan da Cunha remains six
months, ten months, year without
receiving news from any part of the
world, says the Philadelphia Inquirer
The islands were discovered in 1906
by the Portuguese Admiral Tristan
Cor more correctly Tristao) de Cunha,
after whom they are named, during a
voyage to India, but it was not until
the Nineteenth century that the
islands were permanently Inhabited.
One day an American named Lambert,
late Of Salem, Mass, mariner and cit
i2en thereof" landed in Tristan and
declared himself sovereign and sole
possessOr of the group (Which he re-
named Islands of Refreshment)
81 have made up my mind" he |
wrote, "to prepare for myself and my |
family a home where | shall be able
TO live without the difficulties that
have constantly troubled me, and to
procure for us Il property that will in
sure us forever the measure of living
and preserve us from common misfOr-
tunes" 4
Jonathan Lambert had many imita-
tors He arrived in 1910. In 1916
the island had already counted 70 in
habitants. 1t counted so in 1850, and
100 in 1908. According to the latest
news, Tristan population has in
creased TO $50 persons, men, women !
and children, and pastor in
Guided. incidentally Lamberts SOW
Areignty was short-lived, as he was
crowned In May, 1920, while out fish !
ng.
Tristan da Cunha has no history. l
It knows neither industry nor com
nerce, nor war. 1t has no neighhors Il
,ho envy it. There is no government.
'he people manage their affairs
Without any laws, the project once en- ]
Grained eff providing them with
orm4I constitution being deemed TN -
ecessary. "a
Nothing, or nearly nothing, would Il
- known about the customs of these *
.oh.n80ns if, in 1903, an advertise Il
cent in Il London paper had not sig "
allied the sad condition of those peU- h
le living even outside of religion 81
hereUpon an Anglican pastor. Rev. II
H. Barrow, decided to go there with II
il wife and servant. 1t took them h
n"2ths from Southampton to reach 81
= island. They remained there three ii
'"r&, and Mrs Barrow has left an II
,colent narrative Of their visit. N
Iii this way it was learned that those Il
'clusc&, even if they did not consider z
emSeiTcs very happy, seemed to fear y
at they would be even less happy if y
ay deserted this island In 1906 n
- majority for the second time re- 4
&ed 10 desert the island though of Il
red aIIotments of land in Cape Gel +
".
But an incident has just occurred 4
at will upset their life. A cable II
m Rio de Janeiro tells Of the ar u
al on the island Of a new pastor n
~ brought with him a wireless APP i
ratnS. Henceforth Tristan da Cunha \
" know everything. "