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... Arawais , inhabitants of the Gilbert Islands , who were brought here as foreign labourers about nine years ago , on the 1 Just before leaving Tahiti , I bestowed equal care on three cases containing 6000 stones , which were carried by ...
... Arawais , inhabitants of the Gilbert Islands , who were brought here as foreign labourers about nine years ago , on the 1 Just before leaving Tahiti , I bestowed equal care on three cases containing 6000 stones , which were carried by ...
Page 284
... Arawais with joy , till they learnt by what vessel they were to travel . Then they were filled with aların , believing that so large a ship would not dare to risk the dangerous navigation between their little isles ; and that they would ...
... Arawais with joy , till they learnt by what vessel they were to travel . Then they were filled with aların , believing that so large a ship would not dare to risk the dangerous navigation between their little isles ; and that they would ...
Page 285
... Arawais , including women and children , are taken only as deck passengers ; and as the cruise , under steam , cannot take less than from sixteen to eighteen days , during which they must take their chance of whatever weather they may ...
... Arawais , including women and children , are taken only as deck passengers ; and as the cruise , under steam , cannot take less than from sixteen to eighteen days , during which they must take their chance of whatever weather they may ...
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