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... Brander - Adoption , C CHAPTER XI . Papeete - Catholic mission - Protestant mission - A christening party— La Maison Brandère - Tales of the past - Evenings in Tahiti — La musique - Plans - Sunday , 74 113 148 164 CHAPTER XII . Short ...
... Brander - Adoption , C CHAPTER XI . Papeete - Catholic mission - Protestant mission - A christening party— La Maison Brandère - Tales of the past - Evenings in Tahiti — La musique - Plans - Sunday , 74 113 148 164 CHAPTER XII . Short ...
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... Brander & Hort of Tahiti , they decided to follow in their footsteps , and ere long succeeded in effectually supplanting them . This was partly effected by artfully fostering the intertribal disputes , which were ever smouldering among ...
... Brander & Hort of Tahiti , they decided to follow in their footsteps , and ere long succeeded in effectually supplanting them . This was partly effected by artfully fostering the intertribal disputes , which were ever smouldering among ...
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... BRANDER - ADOPTION . H.B.M. CONSULATE , APIA , Sunday Evening , 30th September . From It is finally settled that I am really going on to Tahiti . what I have told you , you can fully understand that Samoa would not be an inviting place ...
... BRANDER - ADOPTION . H.B.M. CONSULATE , APIA , Sunday Evening , 30th September . From It is finally settled that I am really going on to Tahiti . what I have told you , you can fully understand that Samoa would not be an inviting place ...
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... Brander - who died a few months ago , leaving to his young widow a heavy weight of care , in that her two eldest daughters have married Germans , whose mercantile interests are diametrically opposed to those of the house of Brander ...
... Brander - who died a few months ago , leaving to his young widow a heavy weight of care , in that her two eldest daughters have married Germans , whose mercantile interests are diametrically opposed to those of the house of Brander ...
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... Brander of Tahiti was none other than a half - brother of Lady Dunbar Brander , 2 who in his early youth left Elgin and went forth to carve his fortune in foreign lands . You know how little in- terest people in Britain take in watching ...
... Brander of Tahiti was none other than a half - brother of Lady Dunbar Brander , 2 who in his early youth left Elgin and went forth to carve his fortune in foreign lands . You know how little in- terest people in Britain take in watching ...
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