DE NAVIGATIONE MARMITI AD INSVLAM BRANKSEIAM

Marmite leaves for Brownsea Island: formerly known as Branksea, and originally Old English 'Brunoces Ieg', i.e. 'Bruno's Island'.

In hac imagine me videtis, O lectores, sedentem in ponte nauis quae ad Insulam Brankseiam nauigatura est.

distant view of Brownsea Island from Sandbanks

Haec insula medio in sinu maritimo sita est, in comitatu Dorcestriensis. Nomen tulit a quodam Anglo-Saxonico, Brunone nuncupato: insula Anglice olim Brunoces ieg, tunc Branksea, nunc Brownsea nominatur.

Marmite arrives at Pottery Pier and learns that Brownsea Island is the home of the Red Squirrel, a distant relation.

Tandem, longo itinere confecto, perueni ad ripam, aliquantulum uiridis, quod marmotae terrestres sunt, montes Pyreneos vel Alpes incolentes. Tabulam uidi prope molem. Certior factus sum sciuros rubeos, cognatos meos, insulam habitare.

Marmite meets Lord Baden-Powell Marmite at the Scout Stone

Homo ualde urbanus benigne me accepit, Robertus Baden-Powell eques, qui societatem Iuuenum Exploratorum fundauerat abhinc plus quam centum annis.

Marmite and tent peg tree

Marmitus medio in mundo

Marmite and peacock

Estote parati dicunt semper exploratores. Cum autem huic pauoni coloribus tam fucatis picto occurrem, me paratum esse non sensi.

According to Marmite: 'There I was, gazing out over Poole Harbour, imagining that I was Cortez seeing the Pacific for the first time. I was muttering some half-remembered lines about being silent upon a peak, in Darien, when a passer-by asked if I liked Keats. I replied that I'd never tried one, but wouldn't mind a bun.'