“A curious story of -the survival of Spanish traditions in the island of Ysabelj” said Professor Macmillan Brown to a Sydney interviewer, “which was discovered by the Spanish Mendana in 1.567. was told me by Captain Swenson, a planter He was looking for some more land in Ysabel, in company with a native. When they got to the place the native told him he ought not to buy that land because white men had been killed there. Captain Svenson said : ‘I know of no white man having been killed here.’ The native replied. ‘•Oh, it was long ago Two ships came with white men. They built another ship, and 1 then sailed off to esua. Two white men were left behind (probably deserters.) The chief, he comes with his spears and kills them. 5 Now, it is a fact that Mendana, did bring there two ships. and built another, with which he visited the other islands, 5 ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 7
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157Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 7
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