RATHER A TALL STORY.
TO THE EDITOIL Sir,-rOne reads with interest the odves> tnres of the young men who have just returned from a West Coast Sounds trip, their location of the wreck of the Endeavor, etc.! But where their tale crosses the limit of credulity is when they tell us that they saw the stumps of the trees cut down by Captain Ocok in Peggersgill Harbor. It is, I suppose, 130 years since the great navigator was there, and as Ducky Sound’s climate is about the wettest in New Zealand, do “the roving! buccaneers ” really expect ns to swallow that yarn?—l am, etc., Dkaw It Miu). January 12.
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Evening Star, Issue 12399, 12 January 1905, Page 4
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109RATHER A TALL STORY. Evening Star, Issue 12399, 12 January 1905, Page 4
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