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Pursons of this program come from previous editions of I On The World.

This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Baxter. I'm Professor Nicholas Thomasus here.

His new book is Voyagers. Many avenues that we've not had time to explore, but now the

great big mystery that just sits there and makes you laugh. It's like the game of thrones

or trying to figure out the world by reading Greek history. All right, here we go. It's

a map, not quite a map, constructed by two pi A.R. I say that incorrectly, Professor.

Forgive me. What are we looking at because you reproduce it in your book?

On Coats First Voyage, the ship spent several months off the island of Tahiti and the

British developed close relationships with a host of islanders. It wasn't one of these

passing encounters where they exchanged a few things or interacted violently. It was

a sustained interaction. One of the most extraordinary aspects of this interaction was that Tupaya,

who was a priest, a navigator, a political player in the dynamics of the Tahiti and kingdoms

at that time, he was clearly extremely interested in these people who had appeared from beyond

the known universe at that particular time. He was interested in why they were there

and what they were doing. So he spent a great deal of time with Joseph Banks and with

Cook, and when time came for the ship to Dupaya, he wanted to join the voyage. He took a

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