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...attentions, Omai began to doubt whether he really wanted to return home, but the Admiralty considered a promise a promise and King George agreed. Cook's vessel, the Resolution, and a companion ship, the Discovery, were assigned to the expensive task of taking Omai back to Tahiti. At the same time, the Admiralty wanted to revive that other project, the search for a northwest passage as a trade route to the Orient. The new approach: searching along the Pacific Coast rather than in Hudson...
...half the crewmen on long voyages. He also plans to distribute English animals among Pacific islands to see how they will fare in different climates (hence his arkful of livestock). As for Omai, he too has loaded the Resolution with unusual cargo to carry back from England to Tahiti: a portable organ, a suit of armor-and something that his people consider sacred, a large bundle of red feathers...
...Among his colleagues he has no peer. "He gave us our freedom," says Jack Nicholson. Brando himself is stubborn about his freedom-to champion unpopular causes, to choose his own scripts and, above all, to lead a very private life on the island of Tetiaroa, 30 miles north of Tahiti. There last week, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos became the first American journalist to interview Brando in his isolated tropical paradise...
...Christian (mother: Anna Kashfi), who is 18 and about to enter college in Los Angeles. "I not only love him, I like him. We spend a lot of time together." Another son is in a private school in Idaho. The other day his father made a quick hop from Tahiti to "sit on him a little and shape...
Brando keeps his private life on Tahiti very secluded. He has two children by Tarita, who was a 19-year-old beauty in Mutiny on the Bounty. They live on Tahiti. "I see them on weekends," says their father. "They fly to Tetiaroa or I go to them. I don't think I will let them go to the States. As Tahitians, they are too trusting. They would be destroyed in the pace of life in the States...