FSM History

The Eliza (Joseph Winn) trades and collects turtle shell, taking a resident white interpreter aboard.

What happened

The Salem ship Eliza, on a trading voyage, was met by canoes bringing a white man hired as interpreter. Hezel writes that for many years Pohnpeian chiefs left much of the trading with ships to resident whites, who set prices for yams, taro and bananas.

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