Word: nabetari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nabetari and his friend sailed on alone for many days and nights. The days became weeks and the weeks became months, and still there was no sign of land. All this time Nabetari kept alive by catching fish.* When there was no rain he drank shark's blood. His friend had his arm bitten off when he was trying to catch a shark. Afterwards the friend died...
...Nabetari drifted on alone. He was very weak from hunger and thirst and exhaustion. The sail was blown away in a storm, and he did not know where he was going. He thought he was going...
...still the canoe was carried along by the winds and current. And then one day Nabetari was blown onto the shore of a strange island called Ninigo, about 140 miles north of New Guinea and 1,800 miles away from Banaba. It was then November, so Nabetari had been at sea in his canoe for seven months without seeing land. Perhaps nobody in the world has been at sea so long in a canoe before, or traveled...
...very weak and hungry, and nearly dead, but the natives of Ninigo looked after him until an Australian district officer came and took him to a hospital on a big island called Manus. Afterwards, Nabetari came to Tarawa by airplane...
...Nabetari is quite well now, and he has gone back to Banaba as a laborer. But his wonderful voyage in the canoe will become part of Gilbertese history...