the Governor from his cruise to the Carolines; and I think Mrs. Parkinson, Queen Emma’s sister, was of the party, as she frequently accompanies the Governor as interpreter, knowing many of the dialects.
On account of the squalls and the abnormally heavy swell the captain decided to leave Herbert- shöhe, and proceeded, as did also the Stephan, the Governor’s vessel, to the station of Matupi in Blanche Bay, a beautiful little well-sheltered anchorage. The life of the colony for the present depends on the Stettin, so that it is necessary to run no undue risks.
[At Simpsonshafen, in Blanche Bay, the N.D.L. Co. have erected a pier and large building, and I believe the Government Settlement is to be moved there from Herbertshöhe. The steamboat line between Singapore and New Guinea has been abandoned as it did not pay, and a boat now runs from Hong-Kong by the Philippines to New Guinea and Sydney. Blanche Bay and Simpsonshafen take their names from the visit there in 1872 of Captain Simpson in H.M.S. Blanche.]
December 1900.
On arriving here at this beautiful little harbour it looked quite animated, as, in addition to the Stettin and the Stephan, there is here the large white steam yacht Eberhardt, belonging to Herr Bruno Mencke, a German millionaire. This yacht formerly belonged to the Prince of Monaco. Her present owner is said to have £35,000 a year—a large income for Germany—and I believe his father was a rich sugar merchant. This is his second visit to New Guinea, and he has come now for a three years’ cruise amidst these beautiful
