FSM History

Tetens’s Vesta is reportedly attacked in Chuuk Lagoon, then helps Losap fight Nama.

What happened

Alfred Tetens, a trader working for the Hamburg firm Godeffroy, wrote that his ship Vesta was almost taken by Chuukese in 1868, after which he helped Losap fight its neighbor Nama. The MicSem list calls his journal a romanticized account.

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