just the Boudeuse and the Star they cast anchor in front of Tahiti that the two ships are attacked by hundreds of the island showing all the signs of friendship. Leave the words to Bougainville : “All came crying out tayo, which means friend, and by giving us a thousand testimonies of friendship ; all asked nails and earrings. The canoes were filled with women who do not give in to the pleasure of the figure, the greatest number of the European and that, for the beauty of the body, could compete at all with advantage… The most c…
April 6, 1768. The day on which Bougainville discovered the charms of Tahiti
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