tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post556851739340661121..comments2024-03-29T20:41:34.103+13:00Comments on Reid's Reader – A Blog of Book Reviews and Comment.: Something NewNicholas Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497366104216216952noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-6953195447245073262016-08-25T09:11:34.201+12:002016-08-25T09:11:34.201+12:00I thought the point you made about Hayes being to ...I thought the point you made about Hayes being to raise the backing to take over yet another ship was very perceptive. I found it interesting that when the editor of the Maitland newspaper asked readers for reminiscences of Hayes, no one replied -- and yet Clift, who backed the Launceston venture, was apparently robbed blind. Was he embarrassed about his foolishness? Or was he, very quietly, part of the scam in Java? It is the unwritten history that is everlastingly fascinating.World of the Written Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695926585496640941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-65716567582895922312016-08-23T07:40:35.839+12:002016-08-23T07:40:35.839+12:00Thanks for your magnanimous comment, Joan. I thoug...Thanks for your magnanimous comment, Joan. I thought you might have been more displeased at my confusion in reading some parts of the text (I lost track of his commands and misdeeds sometimes); but i know that setting the historical record straight is a prime virtue. What a horrible man!Nicholas Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181567367569419183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-33055822827757732632016-08-22T18:34:16.623+12:002016-08-22T18:34:16.623+12:00Hello Nick - you read the whole thing! So p,eased ...Hello Nick - you read the whole thing! So p,eased you did. Must admit I could not resist following the Orestes in Honolulu, as the courtcase was so farcical, though was aware all the time that it was off topic. Agree with most of your comments, very perceptive. But I had set myself the job of sorting fact from myth, and so the boring (?) facts had to take precedence.World of the Written Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695926585496640941noreply@blogger.com