similar story to you in that way and the money that exploded back from her labor all the way in the fiji islands is came back to the u.k. i mean i've been paul of the british working class but generations we've been part of it our history is a so intertwined so it could be a point of solidarity and connection and yet it's a conversation that just leads to division and fight and you're not really british i guess not a lot i was born in the switch there isn't a way that i could be more british and yeah i think the tenor of that conversation is to say well you are ok so you're legally british have a british passport you're not as british is as someone else who doesn't look like this that phrase you know we are here because you were there our parents were british is when they came here one of the things that really strikes me as well about conversations about empire and identity and when it's you know when people want to attack me on and i'm like go and look at the fijian flag the fijian flag still has the union jack. you know don't tell me that i'm not british so i'm less british or you know this h

island nation in the pacific ocean. bored, rebellious, and yearning for adventure, they stole a traditional whaling boat and, with reckless abandon, they set off for fijiine. >> williams: but mano, isn't fiji about 500 miles from tonga? >> totau: a little bit less. >> williams: did you have a map or a compass? >> totau: no. >> williams: the teenagers might have been brought up on the sea, but ththey soon fifigured out td made a a terrible e mistake. on the first night a violent storm ripped the sails from the mast and tore off the boat's rudder. for over a week, their crippled boat drifted aimlessly. 17-year-old sione fataua, the oldest of the group, told us they were convinced they'd die. >> sione fataua: no food, no water. we was just drifting around by the wind. and after eight days we saw the island. >> williams: it was a volcanic island, jutting out from the sea. as the boat neared, a wave sent it crashing into the rocky shoreline, leaving it in pieces. the exhausted teenagers struggled ashore. >> totau: the only thing we do, grabbing each other together and say a prayer, "thank you, god." >> williams: the schoolboys later discovered they'd drifte