Word: nabetari
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...Tarawa last week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod came upon a story oj incredible human endurance, the saga of a Gilbert Islands native who sailed 2,000 miles across the lonesome stretches of the South Pacific in a canoe. Nabetari's feat, unequaled in the lore of oceanic survival, has been officially confirmed. The story that follows is a simple English version prepared for translation into Gilbertese, which has only a 400-word vocabulary...