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Word: charco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHARCO HARBOUR by Godfrey Blunden. 401 pages. Vanguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Human Endeavor | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Expansion of Fact. Nearly everybody aboard who could write seems to have kept some sort of journal, scribbling away in the meridional heat like diary-addicted schoolgirls. Patiently, Blunden has stitched and embroidered it all together-Endeavor's, wreck on the Great Barrier Reef, refitting at Charco Harbour (socalled because the aborigines greeted them by shouting "Charco!"), the escape and return of a seaman named Saunders who lived with the natives for a while and discovered gold. The voyage also seems to have occasioned European man's first sight of the kangaroo (it was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Human Endeavor | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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