PROLONGED VOYAGE
TWO FRENCH SCIENTISTS ARRIVAL AT CAPETOWN CAPETOWN, August 27 Two French scientists, M. de Bisshop and M. Tatibouet, sailed a catamaran into Table Bay to-day, their trip from Sourabaya, in the Dutch East Indies, having taken 61 days. The scientists spent three years among South Sea Islands, leaving the Marshall Islands for Honolulu in Juno, 1935. However, they battled unsuccessfully for months in an effort to sail eastwards, thereby strengthening their theory that the Polynesian natives originally emigrated from America and not from Asia. Their boat was wrecked at Molokai and they took eight months to build the catamaran.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22820, 30 August 1937, Page 9
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101PROLONGED VOYAGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22820, 30 August 1937, Page 9
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