Word: furlong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong, noted explorer and author, will speak on Chile and exploring through Terra del Fuego at the Union on Tuesday, January...
...Colonel Furlong will, with the aid of slides, describe his travels in Chile. He will show the picturesque coast towns, the city of Valparaiso, and fascinating Santiago; and tell of life on a Chilean farm...
...race of Guanches, the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands and a race now extinct. Some claim that they are descended from the Berbers of Northern Africa, but many on the other hand advance the theory that they are related to the American Indians," said Lt. Col. Charles Wellington Furlong in commenting upon that most interesting conjecture concerning the relationship between the Central American Indians and, certain tribes of Africa. Col. Furlong, who is a noted explorer and author, was a member of a scientific expedition in 1926 to the Azores, Madeiras, and Canaries, and will speak at the Union...
...Furlong then gave a brief account of the trip: "We left Newport in the spring of 1916 in a 22 ton schooner, the 'Kitty A'. Its dimensions were 53 feet in length and 16 feet beam, one of the smallest vessels to cross the Atlantic. The members of our research party were Dr. William Erving of John Hopkins, Mr. Harry Armony of Harvard who owned and navigated the schooner, my-self and crew. The purpose of the expedition was to collect zoological specimens, especially of the bird life of the West African Island and to make a general study...
This island was the first bit of land where Columbus stopped after his return from the discovery of America. Col. Furlong discovered that the old hermitage or church on the north side of the island was where in 1493 half of the crew of Columbus stopped to give thanks to God for their safe return from their perilous voyage. While the Spaniards were in the church praying, the Protuguese, in the hope of preventing the return of Columbus to Spain with a report of his discovery and possibly with the hope of laying claim to the new world themselves, under...