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Show N vrn i s had 'PLANES PAPEETE; Tahiti Tahiti native! used big klips for airplanes Ion before be-fore flying machine were Invented according to Dative traditions. On a cliff at Talarapu in Tahiti there Is a projecting rock marked round about with deep worn grooves. This point la on the peninsula separated from tho main Island by a wldo bay. Here, it Ib said, the old natives were nc us-tomed us-tomed when the wind was In the Hgm direction, to fly enormous kites attaching at-taching tho ropes to the projecting rock kites largo enough to support a man and often on favorable days a man would, by using the kite as an airplane and then as a parrhute. accomplish ac-complish safely the journey across the bay. rx |