Maps on lining papers. This book is about a vanishing way of life. It is unique in that it records for the first time the oral tales of the Norfolk Islanders and their Norfolk dialect. Norfolk is not a written language; the Island's history is thus an oral one. It has been passed from parent to child and has seldom been heard by outsiders. This is the first authentic history as told by an islander from the time the Pitcairn community was transferred to Norfolk Island by the British government in 1856.