Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1917 — LONELIEST SPOT ON EARTH [ARTICLE]

LONELIEST SPOT ON EARTH

Tristan d’Acunha Is a Tiny Oasis In Boundless Wilderness of Water. It was thought that when, after Waterloo, Napol® oll was Bent t 0 Helena, he had been assigned to the loneliest spot on earth. As a matter of fact, St Helena is 1,400 miles nearer a continent than Is Tristan d’Acunha. Many hundreds of miles of ocean lie between this Island and Its nearest neighbor. Tristan d’Acunha, tn brief, is a tiny oasis in a boundless wilderness of waters, proceed from it in which direction one will. It is a rocky and cliffgirt isle with a solitary mountain 1,000 ’ feet high rearing itself from the midst. Yet, on this lonely speck of rock and earth, there lives a community that seems to be quite happy in its isolation from all the rest of the world. They are farmers, cattle raisers and shepherds. Tn the valleys of 1 the island are fertile fields where potatoes mainly are grown. The food of the people consists for the most part of beef, mutton, fowls, potatoes and fish.