POSTA IN BOTTIGLIA o BOTTLE MAIL!Ho fatto ricerche per avere informazioni più precise
sulla posta in bottiglia usata nell'isola di Ascension (per una postcard di quest'isola vai al link
http://www.cifr.it/forum38.html#bottlemailancora )
Il mio corrispondente Mike M., che ha vissuto vari anni in quella sperduta isola, mi ha mandato alcune informazioni e mi ha detto che altre mi arriveranno da collezionsti dei bolli di Ascension.
Le sue prime informazioni circa il luogo esatto sull'isola per il deposito delle bottlglie e poi alcune note storiche, si trovano in questa e-mail che ho appena ricevuto. Ve la metto in inglese (poi la tradurrò... forse...
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Hello Fabio:
I looked in "Ascension Island: A Concise Guide to Ascension Island" (Third Edition, 1983) by J.E. Packer and noted the following. "1673 -- Father Navarette visited and mentioned the 'ocean letterbox' where ships left messages for each other concealed in a crevice of the rocks." And this, "Letter Box: at the extreme tip of S.E. Head in a rather inaccessible area. Navarette, writing in 1673, makes mention of an ocean letter box or cache where passing ships would leave notes and messages for each other, but this is more likely to have been near Clarence or N.E. Bay rather than in this awkward and unlikely spot, far from any suitable anchorage. At one time a red Victorian pillar box stood near Bottle Point, having been carried there as a joke (or so I have been informed although this seems unlikely; letter boxes do weigh a lot). At present a green tin hidden in a stone cairn contains notes left by those reaching the spot. A check made in 1958 revealed notes dating from 1913, including one left by a former Governor of St. Helena, and more latterly notes left by Americans who cheated by arriving in a helicopter. I have been unable to discover who placed the first tin on S.E. Head, and when the practice of leaving notes there began."
And this from "Ascension" (1981) by J.H. Atwood: "It was the custom of ships' captains, probably until 1815 when Ascension Island became a British possession, to leave message in a bottle in a particular holde in the rocks on the eastern side of the isalnd where teh bottle would be sheltered from rain and sea. Mention is made by other authors of three mariners who, when visiting the island, made use of, or reference to, the "bottle post", namely:
R.F.F. Dominic Fernandez Navarette in 1673
Robert Everard in 1696
Louis de Bougainville c. 1795."
Perhaps that info will help.
L'intera storia al link:
http://www.cifr.it/forumnews06.html#baobabancora Ciao ciao fabiov
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....tra l'altro si potrebbe provare anche per la Gorgona.....forse non è una cattiva idea, visto che queste cartoline riesco a reperirle facilmente....
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