Re: tupas on Easter Island

On 28 Aug 2005 21:11:23 -0700, "Duncan" <dunkers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>New Zealand is a ways from Hawaii. No evidence that the Spanish were
>there before
>Tyerman and Bennett; two missionaries who published "Journal of Voyages
>andTravels"

Not strictly correct. http://tinyurl.com/7hnlm is not the best source
but it points to the possible discovery of Hawaii by the Spanish some
considerable time previously.

Also, I have just looked at my now dated copy of the 'The Lost
Caravel' [ISBN 0 85807 021 9] by Robert Langdon. Langdon devotes many
pages to evidence which suggests contact with spaniards prior to Cook
albeit many of the contacts may have come about as the result of
shipwrecks. Cook discovered that the natives already had some iron
implements and in the 1950s staff from the Bishop museum discovered an
iron tool with a wooden handle and a small roll of sail cloth in the
burial casket of a pre-Cook chief. Langdon cites much more but there
are too many pages to quote.

> in London in 1831. The earliest description of the Hawaiian Kipu'u is
>found in the chapter titled 'Tax-gatherers Memorandum Cord'.

>



Eric Stevens

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