sentences:  In 1956, his grandson Valentino Riroroko Tuki, in the company of three of his brothers and a relative, escaped the island in a small open row boat with an added sail, measuring only 6 meters in length, to obligate the Chilean authorities to grant them the freedom to leave the island at will.This was not the first boat to escape, and in several earlier attempts about 17 islanders lost their lives at sea.King Valentino in his boat after 56 days made it safely to Atiu in the Cook Islands, a nearly 3,000-mile, open-sea voyage.