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An
incident
must
here
be
related
,
not
only
as
interesting
in
itself
,
but
because
it
was
the
first
attempt
made
by
the
colonists
to
communicate
with
the
rest
of
mankind
.
Gideon
Spilett
had
already
several
times
pondered
whether
to
throw
into
the
sea
a
letter
enclosed
in
a
bottle
,
which
currents
might
perhaps
carry
to
an
inhabited
coast
,
or
to
confide
it
to
pigeons
.
But
how
could
it
be
seriously
hoped
that
either
pigeons
or
bottles
could
cross
the
distance
of
twelve
hundred
miles
which
separated
the
island
from
any
inhabited
land
?
It
would
have
been
pure
folly
.
But
on
the
30th
of
June
the
capture
was
effected
,
not
without
difficulty
,
of
an
albatross
,
which
a
shot
from
Herbert
's
gun
had
slightly
wounded
in
the
foot
.
It
was
a
magnificent
bird
,
measuring
ten
feet
from
wing
to
wing
,
and
which
could
traverse
seas
as
wide
as
the
Pacific
.
Herbert
would
have
liked
to
keep
this
superb
bird
,
as
its
wound
would
soon
heal
,
and
he
thought
he
could
tame
it
;
but
Spilett
explained
to
him
that
they
should
not
neglect
this
opportunity
of
attempting
to
communicate
by
this
messenger
with
the
lands
of
the
Pacific
;
for
if
the
albatross
had
come
from
some
inhabited
region
,
there
was
no
doubt
but
that
it
would
return
there
so
soon
as
it
was
set
free
.
Perhaps
in
his
heart
Gideon
Spilett
,
in
whom
the
journalist
sometimes
came
to
the
surface
,
was
not
sorry
to
have
the
opportunity
of
sending
forth
to
take
its
chance
an
exciting
article
relating
the
adventures
of
the
settlers
in
Lincoln
Island
.
What
a
success
for
the
authorized
reporter
of
the
New
York
Herald
,
and
for
the
number
which
should
contain
the
article
,
if
it
should
ever
reach
the
address
of
its
editor
,
the
Honorable
James
Bennett
!
Gideon
Spilett
then
wrote
out
a
concise
account
,
which
was
placed
in
a
strong
waterproof
bag
,
with
an
earnest
request
to
whoever
might
find
it
to
forward
it
to
the
office
of
the
New
York
Herald
.
This
little
bag
was
fastened
to
the
neck
of
the
albatross
,
and
not
to
its
foot
,
for
these
birds
are
in
the
habit
of
resting
on
the
surface
of
the
sea
;
then
liberty
was
given
to
this
swift
courier
of
the
air
,
and
it
was
not
without
some
emotion
that
the
colonists
watched
it
disappear
in
the
misty
west
.
"
Where
is
he
going
to
?
"
asked
Pencroft
.
"
Towards
New
Zealand
,
"
replied
Herbert
.
"
A
good
voyage
to
you
,
"
shouted
the
sailor
,
who
himself
did
not
expect
any
great
result
from
this
mode
of
correspondence
.
