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A story of escape: a terrible true tale or fake news?

Traveller's engraved horn, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (LR 23) One of the most perplexing tales to come out of Norfolk Island in the nineteenth century is the story of Bennett and Balsto. A story that beautifully illustrates both the…