Explore "The Fate of the Alida" by Louis Becke on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Three years ago, in an Australian paper, I read something that set me thinking of Taplin -- of Taplin and his wife, and the fate of the ALIDA. This is what I read: --
"News has reached Tahiti that a steamer had arrived at Toulon with two noted prisoners on board. These men, who are brothers named Rorique, long ago left Tahiti on an island-trading trip, and when the vessel got to sea they murdered the captain, a passenger, the supercargo (Mr Gibson, of Sydney), and two sailors, and threw their bodies overboard. The movers in the affair were arrested at Ponape, in the Caroline Islands. The vessel belonged to a Tahitian prince, and was called the NUROAHITI, but its name had been changed after the tragedy. The accused persons were sent to Manilla. From Manilla they appear now to have been sent on to France."