Come "Buen watson iis isa it I of ghanes and museums, Dut lent investigation, no!
scholarly i weeks ie in tial reef-strewn waters of 4 Er 'Hunderoon adopts' the hipelago.
pian of letting each lent Fi his own story through stm of avocations from his journals. terse tate elaborated 00 clearly by of Yotzaes "and comments tick done and. risks Under-ely impression ig. gain Lower ahs wad Savigate any oPetne Figian Archipelago, enckereq" in 1648, he found ifrenbayed ina huge horn ret, 29 miles in length, and but "not without great
Faumn's luck still held, for after can heartily, sympathise, ulema ay SES
tricky and intricate navigation much a network of reefs and ds the vessel won through to fea just just as @ furious gale Had the ver sel been involved that tangle of hidden dangers but day her destruction mast inevitable Professor ug available evidence of tures and discoveries and gives interesting.aecount of conten charts. and. the problems confronted Tasma A Mer Tasman's voyage nothing was heard of the Fiji Islands fr over one hundred and thirty "The discoveries which he man) made there excited no sre in other navigators to follow racks.
Instead of, finch over which he had sailed were with dangerous reefs, from heh he had escaped only after sore il combined with rare good frane,"..,... And 0, the heroic of exploration and discovery pre vay for more than a century 4 period of commercial rivalry, the course of which Spain passed iva decline, and England and land got to grip& in a contest supremacy in the Far East, It snot til after the middle of the tenth century, under the idence of the Romantic Revival, vel as an increasing interest in atte research, that commanders ried their ships once again to discoveries in the South ie" One of the greatest of commanders was Captain discoveries iis were small but important who surveyed and charted the Natow which ded in the trading sydney. Te next, European navigator to th it the Fijis was William Bligh, in the course of the most unding small boat, voyage ever de, sailed right through the thipelago in the launch of H.M.S. "Bounty" in which he and. 18 com: runs had been cast adrift by the primer Bligh "is the sting of the early navigators sailed those waters, even as he he honour of making the ye discoveries in the When one considers that, the tech had only 7 inches of freetd, waking constant baling sary, and: that they were to rations of 2 oz.
and 1 gill of water nan per day (having no firearms dare not try to land anyone fs filled with admiration the quadrant iti 8 compass with me, which swith fi,{Slent motion of the boat, and mays wot, Tam prevented from much could. wish."
"fessor Henderson bears icy tat, Bligh' bearings, and ines rij possible by their means to follow charts are sq accurate that egettainty the track which the followed through the Fisis in nig, {Tettendous: voyage of' 3,600 fox it°, Timor. Professor Hender-88 his trained historical £2. bear on all the evidence he fe a Of the "Bo gather on the
and overbearing: manner Bligh ad a rough
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