ODD COLLECTIONS

[happy daze john in oz]

No doubt we have all at times made collections of some odd items. I have a small collection of my teeth that have been extracted.
Reading the posts about what you hated to see your cabin mates bring on board brought back memories of I winger we had on the Pretoria Castle.
He had a small net bag, bit like an onion bag and in it some of his hair. Every time he had a hair cut be it on board or ashore he would colect up the cuttings and add them to the bag.
Did any of you sail with any one like that, or do you also collect odd things?

[j.sabourn]

A number of years ago when I had a few teeth, I had a small pallette with about 5 on. We also had a dog a Blue Heeler. The wife was away for a couple of weeks, so me and the dog used to have a few jars in the evening. One morning I woke up and groping for the teeth on the bedside table couldnt find. Decided the dog had ate them so spent the rest of time the wife was away following the dog around. Never did find. That dog would eat anything. Got a replacement palette before the wife came back and thought I was safe. However one of the blasted neighbours told her. She however was more concerned about the dog than the loss of the teeth. Cheers John Sabourn

[Captain Kong]

No doubt we have all at times made collections of some odd items. I have a small collection of my teeth that have been extracted. HD John.
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Two years ago I had one of my back teeth pulled by my dentist, Mr Christian here in Boltonistan.
I took it with me to Tahiti and my friend there, Manuraii Young, a decendent of Edward Young, Midshipman of the Bounty Mutiny, took me to Matavai Bay where the Bounty lay at anchor for six months waiting for the Bread Fruit season. On the beach there is a huge rock and next to it is a Bread Fruit tree, on the Rock is a Plaque with HMS BOUNTY and the dates she was there also a crew list including Mr Christian, of the mutiny , I buried my tooth from Mr Christian in Bolton under the Bread Fruit tree next t Mr Christians name of the Bounty.
I will be there in about three weeks to see if my tooth has taken root.
Cheers
Brian.

[j.sabourn]

With a name like your dentist has Brian, are you sure you arent predjudiced. Cheers John Sabourn

[Captain Kong]

These days of increasing ***** we need more name like that.
Cheers
Brian.

[Neville Roberts]

I pulled one of my back molars and have it on my key chain , I said to my 18 year old granddaughter that I wanted too have it mounted on an earing for her whaen I die ,she almost had a fit .

[happy daze john in oz]

These days of increasing ***** we need more name like that.
Cheers
Brian.

Maybe if you took **** with you and planted him he might take root?

[Captain Kong]

He is doing enough Rooting John. he has four kids already.
Cheers
Brian

[leratty]

Capt. Kong would his relative have stayed on Tahiti after Bounty headed off winding up at Pitcairn? If so how come the RN did not get him when they went on the hunt for the mutineers? Are you aware of the horrific court case a few years ago of the incest that had been going on on Pitcairn for generations? The NZ government who I believe administer the island took the case & won. Not too sure what happened to the defendants in the case. Also did you know that they found the R.N. ship HMS Pandora with those mutineers they captured were being returned to Blighty on & which sank up near the top of Queensland coast? They found can you believe the steel cage the mutineers were kept (hence the name Pandoras box) in. Of course they went down with the ship, they also found the Dr's medicine chest & the clove oil was still in perfect condition. I know they were carrying out research dives on her in a small window when the weather allowed it. Not too sure how many or even if that was completed? The site is a no go to any divers not sanctioned by the Aus gov't though God knows how they could enforce that as it is very very remote.

Oh if you can get a book called HMS Rattlesnake, it is a terrific read the Capt. was an amazing fellow. It is about the voyage of that ship to Aus & its charting of the Far Nth Queensland coast & PNG. The best part is the the de manning of Fort settlement in the Gulf of Carpenteria which my wife & I have visited. We flew in via a light aircraft charter flight out of Darwin & camped with an aboriginal guide, just bloody amazing. It the settlement failed three times mainly due to the soldiers going mad due to drinking rum. After the last it was abandoned, all the little houses are still there, the graveyard etc truly a special place. & how they survived is anyone's guess in their full red coat uniforms the women in all their clothes of those days. The heat over 40c in summer then pouring with rain in the cooler months. The aboriginal rock art there is breath taking. Richard

[Ivan Cloherty]

Capt. Kong would his relative have stayed on Tahiti after Bounty headed off winding up at Pitcairn? If so how come the RN did not get him when they went on the hunt for the mutineers? . Richard

Richard, from the material I have read the Pitcairn Islands were a 150 nautical miles away from the position recorded on the charts of those days, so it would have been quite easy to have missed them when a days sailing of 70 to 90 miles was considered good and nautical accuracy on the searching ships may have also been suspect because of the instruments of that day.