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The following account of the discovery of Tahiti on  J une  19, 1767 ,   is based on the complete journal of George Robertson, Master on board the H.M.S. DOLPHIN, with excellent explanatory foreword and editing   by Hugh Carrington, and the journal of Captain Wallis as re-written by John Hawkesworth in  1773. TAHITI AND THE  SOUTH PACIFIC Reef Magazine Vol 2, No. 3, 1967 Special Issue - 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Tahiti  "Wallis Discovers Tahiti"  by  Tracy  Laignelot 30 Pages: 21-27, 34, 37-38 Reef [Magazine], Vol 2. No. 3, 1967 - Special Issue 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Tahiti Publications Reef, S.A.R.L., B.P. 966, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia October 2020: This account was researched and written in Tahiti  by  Tracy Laignelot in the 1960s when she lived on the island   for close to 9 years. Her  name is now  Tracy Novinger and she is the author of 3 books published in 2001, 2004 and 2018 respectively. Her fourth book, a novel set