In 1943, diagnosed with tuberculosis, Frisbie was evacuated by then U.S. Navy Lieutenant James Michener to a hospital on American Samoa.
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In the 1940s, after the death of Frisbie’s wife, the family visited the uninhabited Northern Cook atoll Suwarrow and lived there for almost a year.
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In Tahiti, Frisbie (dubbed: “Ropati,” a phonetic approximation of “Robert” en: Writer) met Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, well-known co-authors of the Mutiny on the Bounty series.
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