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Ecuador

Floreana

Written by pisatel6 Published in Ecuador on Friday, 15 October 2010 15:23

Aboard our boat offshore the Galapagos, a guide/naturalist regaled us with stories of the island's earliest settlers. An artesian spring provided fresh water to the island. The first settler was an Irishman, stranded in 1807, who raised potatoes and vegetables and bartered them with passing buccaneers and whalers in exchange for supplies consisting mostly of liquor. In the 1830s came a German dentist and his woman. The dentist pulled all of his own and his partner's teeth-to prevent tooth decay. A supply ship provided him with a set of teeth -one story says they were metal, the other wooden - which he and his partner shared.

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