Hello Miles!

06 Jan 05 05:27, you wrote to me:

 BS>> Yes. Then the little Kingdom got known down there (or
"under" :))
 BS>> ? ;)

 MM> Australians like to be known as the people who live "Down Under"
 MM> the Earth...

Didn't know they liked it. :)

 BS>> Aha, but anyhow why would he do it on purpose?

 MM> For the same reason people build towers in mazes - easier to look
 MM> down on the maze of islands and see the way past or through them
 MM> than to risk your only boat in some rocky blind alley...

Aha.

 MM>>  The original speeling here was "Nieeuw Zeeland",  so you're
 MM>> right on the button...

 BS>> Dutch is strange. ;)

 MM> NZ has both Dutch and Africaans immigrants - and they all work
 MM> hard and earnestly,  becoming successful NZers....   very strange
 MM> !

Aha. :) I don't think the name has anything to do with it. :) What are you
working with yourself?

Bo


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