This week Taylor brings us the story of a vessel with a short but fascinating life - Cleopatra's Barge, which would later be renamed Ha'aheo o Hawai'i (Pride of Hawai'i) after being purchased by Kamehameha II for his personal use.

**This episode opens with a longer banter session than normal as we shake off the chains of the Spanish Armada series**

Sources:

Johnson, Paul Forsyth. "Do They Really Pay You To Do That?" Smithsonian Institution, Sept 1996. https://web.archive.org/web/20110604054435/http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/pubs/johnston2.pdf

Johnston, Paul Forsyth. "A Million Pounds of Sandalwood: The History of Cleopatra's Barge in Hawaii." The American Neptune, vol. 62, no. 1, 2002, pp. 5 - 45

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