FSM History

The brigantine Shanghai repatriates Mortlock Islanders taken to Samoa as laborers.

What happened

Hezel writes that several Mortlock Islanders taken to Samoa about ten years earlier came home on the brigantine Shanghai, “all decked out in European clothing and eager to tell of their adventures.” The MicSem list says eight laborers were returned to Lukunor.

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