SCIENTISTS LONG VOYAGE
French Evidence on Migration v of Polynesians (Received 28, 1.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Aug. 27. Two French scientists, MM. De Bi*sshop and Tatibouet sailed a catamaran into Table' Bay to-day, the trip from Sourabaya taldng 61 days, They spent three years among the South Sea islands, leaving the Marshall Islands for Honolulu in June 1935. They unsuccessfully battled for months to sail eastwards, thereby strengthening the theory that tho Polynesian natives emigrated from America and not from Asia. Their boat was wreeked at Molokai and it took eight months to build the catamaran.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 5
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