Letters from Luigi Blotto to Andrew Inglis Clark, 27 August 1873 and 17 Nov 1894, written in Italian with typed translations. He writes of a voyage to Yokohama, the Pacific, San Francisco and a return to Italy, Clark's progress in Italian, warm greetings to Clark, his family and Tasmania.

C4/C17, C4/C18

Blotto, L

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C 4/C ./7 uS Yokohama August 27, 1873 My dear friend (masculine) On 23rd of this month, we reached this port after 44 days of navigation. After the departure from Hobart Town we touched the island of I J ' Matuku in Polynesia where we found no more than 60 savages who co~nuts and bananas (? ~bt sure) (Can't work out "li scontro noi" - it doesn't make grammatical sense to me, but it looks as though the crew gave the natives tobacco & I ' J handkerchi efsGr p~p '+-wa-! ~ ay rO 'l~u;L-) _ 1'-'-wl~ 1."'{..v1J &JL -1,.U...1...J wi ~~ w ~ ~ rlu.-~ rx:;f ~ ~) - these savages were completely nude except that next to the private parts they had a belt of tree-leaves. There we stayed 10 days, that is from 1st July to lOth of that month. here we finished loading water, made some repairs to the masts because (word cut off at edge) had suffered because of a severe storm that (can't find "papammo" in dictionary, but the sense would seem to be Il we ran into") not far from New Zealand. since the bad weather had carried us further under that island. From the island of Matuku, as you know, we took 44 days, and during the crossing we had to endure a lot of heat, especially beneath the eq~ Qtor, because there ~as never the least bit (/ vNt.:...JM wi(! ~ ~ " ~ 'th ~) of wind to enable us to sail. On 3 August we were closely followed by a big whale which followed us C-'1 t h \A C U. c; through ,Li the nearest I can get to "bore" is "north winds") 'GOn~, then left us: then in the evening we made a big catch of tunny which sufficed us for 3 days. Here, now, we would stop for a few months. (it could possibly be "will" but "would u makes more sense) Thin for 2 months we would take the route through the Sandwich(?) Islands cut-------{?) 

Letters from Luigi Blotto, to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, 1873 and 1894

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Letters from Luigi Blotto, to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, 1873 and 1894

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