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Christopher Columbus sighted the island s magnificent mountains when he circled syr airport Wai tukubuli with a 17-ship armada in 1493. Since it was Sunday morning, he called the island Dominica (from the Latin word domini meaning the Lord s day ) and wrote in his logbook: Dominica is remarkable for the beauty of its mountains. and must be seen to be believed. Columbus himself didn t land on Dominica that day because of the difficulty of finding a calm harbor. However, some of his men did anchor off the leeward side and reported finding people and huts. Over the next century, various European expeditions visited or passed by the island, and the sailors mentioned its outstanding beauty

Along with Aragorn Dick-Read, an artist and sailor from the island of Tortola, and Etien Charles, a master canoe-builder, Frederick supervised the 20-man crew who built a 35-foot dugout from a gommier tree cut on Morne Lasouce under a full-moon on a December night in 1995. When the canoe was complete in May, 1997, a crew of nine Carib men and two Carib women rowed the Gli-Gli from Dominica through the southern Caribbean to northwest Guyana on the Atlantic coast of South America, an 800-mile trip.