Note 11 — Chapter IX · ARRIVAL AT EASTER ISLAND
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Captain Benson and his crew made the voyage in the ship’s boat to Mangareva in sixteen days, and after two days there left in the same manner for Tahiti, accomplishing the further nine hundred miles in eleven days. Mr. Richards, the British Consul at the latter place, told us later of his astonishment, when, in answer to his question whence the crew had come, he received the amazing reply, “Easter Island.” For the whole account see Captain Benson’s Own Story (The James H. Barry Co., San Francisco).