Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1966Vol. 37, No. 4

"Crusoe" Returns

p. 29 · Read in the full issue

Page 2929

To Civilisation

Michael Swift, the 27-year-old English hermit who was dropped on isolated Suwarrow Atoll by New Zealand yachtsmen last November, has returned to civili sation—for the time being.

Wearing a full beard and look ing well, Swift arrived in Raro tonga on March 12 in the Cook Islands trading vessel “Tagua”. owned by Messrs. Silk and Boyd.

He will stay in Rarotonga for a month, and will then leave in the “Tagua" for New Zealand.

Swift plans to work in New Zealand, buy a boat and return to Suwarrow.

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