TRIP IN CATAMARAN.
SCIENTISTS AT CAPETOWN. Received August 28. 1.25 p.m. CAPETOWN, Aug. 27. Two French scientists, DIM. De Bissliop and Tatihouet, sailed in a catamaran into Table Bay to-day, their trip from Sourabaya (Java), taking 61 days. They spent three years among the South Seas islands. Leaving the Marshal! Islands for Honolulu in June, 1935, they unsuccessfully battled for months to sail eastwards, thereby strengthening the theory that the Polynesian natives emigrated from America, not Asia. The boat was wrecked at Molokai, and it took eight months to build the catamaran.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 10
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92TRIP IN CATAMARAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 10
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