14
January 1980
Dear
Mr Plant,
Thank
you for your letter of 25 December.
I
have looked at the Hakluyt Society volume published in 1908 to which you refer
in your letter but I can find no reference to blue eggs.
Roggeveen
does say that very few domestic fowls were seen (p.22) but in an appendix -
Carl Friederich Behrens' narrative of Roggeveen's visit - there is a reference
to “500 live fowls which were like those of the Vierländen” (p.135). I
assume that the Vierländen referred to is the agricultural area adjacent to
the city of Hamburg. I am sorry that I cannot give you any more positive help.
Yours
sincerely,
S.M.
Lees
Superintendent & Reading Room