Fosterian Magazine – Summer 1937 - Old Fosterians and Lord ...

36lecture on his vi~it. visit. The occasion of the School Camp awokepleasant recollections of Scouts camps of fifteen or sixteen yearsago, especially the 30-mile S0-mile trek to Burton Bradstock under Mr.Murphy and the fine camp at Kilve with Mr. Harrison, especiallyas he won the Headmaster's prize for the best kept diary at the1922 camp.A very interesting letter came from the Rev. E. E. Curtis(1918-24) at the end of his first month in Mauritius. A seventee~-dateen-dayvoyage brought him t.o to Cape Town at the end of April,until wh~n, when, except for a mornmg morning ashore at Funchal (Madeira) (Madelra)seven-and a glImpse glimpse of ~ape Cape ":erde, Verde, ~e he had been entirely out of sightof land. .. The th1ck thick m1st mist wh1ch which enveloped the town liftedtemporarily to expose Table Mountain. The second part of hisjourney gave him two days at Durban, where he was muchstruck by the air of dignity, efficiency and cleanness in contrastto the .French towns of Tamatave (Madagascar) and St. Denys(Reumon), (Reunion), where he. next called. ~aur~tius Mauritius is a place of greatnatural beauty. It 1S is 30 by 20 mIles miles m in extent, and rises to2,000 feet in .the cent~e, centre,.isolated . peaks reaching 3,000 or 4,000feet.. y Volcanic oicamc rock 1S is everywhere, every,rvhere, and there are alarmingprec1p1ces precipices among the mountains. B1.tow Bqlpw stretch miles of waving wavin[sugar-cane su~ar-cane and tracts of rough f@rest, fordst, mostly eucalyptus andsp1ky spiky aloe plants, palm-trees, mangoes and banana-trees beingalso abundant. abundant, The coast is lovely with its white sand andfascinati~g fascinating shells and fringing reef of coral, and bathing is asheer. dehght. delight. Rain falls now and then-generally so fiercelythat m in half-an-hour the land is under water and in half-a-day hatf-a-dayeverywhere is flo~ded; flooded ; but for the most part the days .hadbeen beer; sunny and bright bnght and very tolerable, for it was then winter. wint