The Story
p. 80 · Read in the full issue
Was Captain Peter Dillon the first man to discover the fate oi La Perouse's two ships after they were wrecked at Vanikoro ir 1788? R. A. Langdon, author o\ "Island of Love", raised some doubts in an article written foi PIM in February. He gave some facts which indicated that an Eng lish whale ship had apparently found evidence of the Frenchmar before Dillon made his discovery.
However, Langdon's story pointed out that a mystery thal still had to be solved was the fate of those of La Perouse's men whc were not drowned or killed at Vani koro. These men had built a two masted ship from the wreckage oi their vessel and had sailed away —"never to be seen again".
In this article for PIM, C. Jack Hinton suggests an explanation foi the disappearance of those men Mr. Jack-Hinton is a former Distric Officer, Malaita (BSIP), and is nov a research scholar with the Depart ment of Pacific History, Australiar National University, Canberra. H( is working on the history of the dis covery of the Solomons.