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Mariner, who lived with him for some three or four years, no doubt knew this savage chieftain well, and was competent to speak as he did of him. "For ten months I lived with the chief Fatafehe in the Haapai Group, and then from there I was removed to the larger island of Vavau.
"So amid the gloomy looks and muttered discontent of the men the anchor was weighed, and the Port-au-Prince stood out of the harbour to meet with her final and terrible disaster." "It was on Saturday, the 20th of November, 1806, that we anchored at one of the Haapai Islands, in the Tonga Group, or as people now call them, the Friendly Islands.
I came to it, one evening, sailing north from Nukualofa and Haapai, and it looked to me like a single big mountain jutting up out of the sea, black-green against the sunset. It was very impressive.
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