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From: thos@softway.oz (Thomas Cohen)
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Subject: Re: wooden ships
Summary: British explorers
Message-ID: <2961@softway.oz>
Date: 28 May 90 07:06:31 GMT
References: <1990May22.041549.6888@utzoo.uucp> <1990May22.131441.1701@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990May24.182621.14527@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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In article <1990May24.182621.14527@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>In article <1990May22.131441.1701@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (Brian or James) writes:
>
>[British are inept explorers.]
>
That's not all he wrote...

Besides, some of them were actually quite good, 
for example Capt. James Cook. (admittedly getting 
killed and eaten by Hawaiian natives was hardly 
the high point of his career).
But how do you draw the distinction between 'navigators'
and 'explorers'?.

Enuff, on with space.

>					phil

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