Word: tasmania
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...note from a gentleman of Tasmania informed the President that he was about to become the recipient of a wallaby. Dictionaries were consulted, and orders were issued to send the gift to the zoo when it arrives. Said Tine New York Worlds "T. R. never would have been caught like that. 'A wallaby? Bully! Loeb, cable Newman to send an echidna and a platypus along with the wallaby. And, Loeb, see if he can pick up a bandicoot or a phalanger. This country hasn't half enough marsupials and monotremes...
...lifeboat, only hardtack, chocolate, condensed milk, tinned stuffs and vegetable extracts to eat on a 38,000 mi. cruise around the world. They will stop at 50 points and report their condition, which, if ever it becomes ominous, will certainly do so on the 4,600-mi. stretch between Tasmania and Durban. Despatches did not state whether or not the Cornish mariners would indulge themselves at ports of call...
...first cruisers to leave Melbourne -the Richmond, Memphis, Trenton, Marblehead-visited Hobart, Tasmania, and were handsomely entertained...
...only U. S. warship that had ever visited Tasmania before was the corvette (wooden) Swatara, in 1874. Following the cruisers, the whole fleet sailed for New Zealand (Auckland and Wellington), where more entertainment was awaiting them. The whole visit was a triumph of goodwill...
...cruiser squadron headed by the Seattle with three Admirals aboard- Coontz, Cole and Leigh-will go to Melbourne, Australia. The battle fleet, headed by the California under Admiral S. S. Robison, will go to Sydney, New Zealand. Later, a light cruiser squadron will go on from Melbourne to Hobart, Tasmania...