I think "Carpoi" roughly translates to "good" or "will do very well" in the Maori language. Peter On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Carol Brill <seebee.cazza@bigpond.com> wrote: > Dear Julie and list, > > > > This man I've just tripped over is interesting - apparently he was a seaman > as early as 1826, and was still in Hobart town more than a decade later. I > can't positively find him on the Colonial Links site, but he looks as > though > he was a resident for some time, and there are John Tynans on the Col. > Links > site. I wonder if anyone can identify the meaning of the word "Carpoi" too? > > > > John Tynan, a New Zealander, exquisitely tatooed, was charged with having > fallen into the prevailing vice of the Europeans, for which he was ordered > to pay the usual penalty. Carpoi, said John, as he left the bar, apparently > well satisfied with the result. - Colonial Times 12 November 1839 > > > > Tynan John Seaman Sydney Packet 25 May 1826 Hobart Port Jackson > CSO63/1/1 p222 > > > > Best wishes, > > Carol Brill. > > > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >