Word: mauritius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phillips, for example, barely mentions the cruise of Nathaniel Silsbee in the Benjamin. Silsbee was her captain at 19, with a crew of boys. The cargo cost $18,000. They sold it at the Isle of France (Mauritius), converted the profit to gold, and made about $54,000 in six months, because of the inflation of the currency during an embargo. They sent perhaps $25,000 to Salem (to pay for their ship and cargo), bought $30,000 worth of wine at the Cape of Good Hope, sold it at the Isle of France for about $90,000, and returned...
...late, famed dodo bird died of stupidity sometime in the 17th Century. A clumsy, pigeon-like groundling, larger than a turkey, the dodo lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Life in that restricted world was so safe and so easy that the dodo became defenseless. With the arrival of settlers on Mauritius, the birds were slaughtered by man & beast. The dodo's flesh was tough and tasteless and it might have survived in spite of its dim-witted clumsiness-but pigs smashed the eggs and monkeys ate the young...
...boys, let's be reasonable. After all, a philatelist won't stop collecting the latest editions of postage stamps after getting hold of a Mauritius, or an) other ancient stamp. You stand a good chance of being collected when "it's over everywhere." So far, you have not been issued...
Grisou is really Guimbeau's cat. The Marquis Georges de Visdelou-Guimbeau is Freddy's boyhood friend from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The night of the murder Freddy and Guimbeau gave a party for friends (Nancy was in Maine with her mother). Afterwards Freddy drove two wives of R.A.F. pilots home and, he says, went to bed. This was just after 1. At 3 Guimbeau drove his friend Betty Roberts home, returning 15 minutes later to find Freddy having trouble with Grisou, who would not let him sleep. Guimbeau put Grisou out and went...
Reza Pahlavi, ex-Shah of Iran, who has been confined by the British on the island of Mauritius, got permission to go to Canada with his family...