Greetings from Nuku Hiva
January 22nd 2008 Greetings from Nuku Hiva
Jan. 19 and we finally saw land! What a glorious sight! We arrived about 7 AM
at Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia, the largest of the 10 Marquesas Islands of which only 6 are inhabited. Herman Melville signed aboard the whaling ship Acushnet in 1841 but, after 18 months, he deserted here at Nuku Hiva where he lived for four months among the Typee people. He wrote Typee
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