tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post6217092598772268484..comments2024-02-25T17:01:10.739+13:00Comments on World of the Written Word: European woman 'arrived in New Zealand before Captain Cook'World of the Written Wordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10695926585496640941noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post-51158399271345232592011-07-30T15:53:47.480+12:002011-07-30T15:53:47.480+12:00Also the 'offical reports from Aust and Englan...Also the 'offical reports from Aust and England is that: Lancashire had been captured by the master of the 'Brothers' and Kelly had been taken home a prisoner on the 'Britannia'. <br />Yet when the 'Brothers' arrived at Port Jackson, there was no mention of Lancashire, so from where he was captured to Port Jackson, Lancashire vanished without a trace.<br />And as I said above Kelly was captured in Chile. There is no records in the Old Baily in London<br />or any records of Kelly arriving in EnglandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post-17045674528617914472011-01-07T08:45:19.204+13:002011-01-07T08:45:19.204+13:00Absolutely fascinating! A most intriguing footnot...Absolutely fascinating! A most intriguing footnote to my story of Samuel Rodman Chace (which was published in the Journal of New Zealand Studies in October 2004). Where did you read this? I would love to know. As you say, it is much more likely that the women were unwilling Maori passengers -- though by that stage they could have been helping out on the ship, out a sense of self-preservation. By the way, I am convinced that the answer to the mystery of the skull is very simply -- it was carried here from Europe as a memento mori, something ghoulishly fashionable in Victorian times. Or maybe, more practically, as a theatrical prop. Then, being of no interest or use, it was chucked away. There is a story in it, though.World of the Written Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695926585496640941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post-15878948996295719762011-01-06T22:53:03.386+13:002011-01-06T22:53:03.386+13:00On 4 January 1807 the Venus, a 45 ton fragata, was...On 4 January 1807 the Venus, a 45 ton fragata, was detained near Carampangue, southern Chile. In command was one Capitan Benjamin Barnet Kelly.<br /><br />Kelly was marched off to Concepcion for interrogation.<br /><br />In the course of questioning Kelly told his inquisitors an imaginative tale. He had entered the Pacific via Cape Horn as navigator aboard the Pelican. The Venus had been “acquired” in Australia with the intention of returning to San Juan, South America to pick up seal hunters the Pelican had left behind. Six native women on board he described as female crew, replacements for men lost during a pirate attack. They were more likely to have been Maori women the Venus had kidnapped from the New Zealand coast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178779736451277146.post-13559050106297932872008-08-12T06:19:00.000+12:002008-08-12T06:19:00.000+12:00Interesting story. Was the scull found alone, or a...Interesting story. Was the scull found alone, or among other human remails ?<BR/>WilliamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com