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He left on a fruitless quest after an imaginary guano island, and from then until two years ago he has been living on various islands in both the North and South Pacific, leading what he calls "a wandering and lonely but not unhappy existence," "Lui," as they call him, being a man both liked and trusted by the natives from lonely Easter Island to the faraway Pelews.
V, Part II, p. 106 et seq., and an account of the Pelews given by Ymer.
So one day he told the supercargo of their vessel that he would trade for them no longer than the exact time he had agreed upon two years. He had come to Funafuti from the Pelews, and was now awaiting the return of his firm's vessel to take him back there again. Getting into our boat we were pulled ashore and landed on the beach in front of the trader's house.
Let me keep as many of them as I have room for aboard, and I'll pay for them in muskets and powder and bullets." "What do you want with them?" "Sell them to old Abba Dul, the king of the Pelews. I've done business with him before." Charlik called Kanka over to him, and the two spoke in low tones. Then the young ruler of Lele shook his head. "No.
A flying lemur from the Pelews contemplated swooping upon the head of a huge tigress which glared with glassy eyes across the place at the snarling muzzle of a polar bear.
And I won't let you give yourself up to justice or any one. I'll say he died in the boat." And then the laughter of hysterics. When, some months later, the JOSEPHINE, whaler, of New London, picked them up on her way to Japan, VIA the Carolines and Pelews, the captain satisfactorily answered the query made by Enderby if he could marry them. He "rayther thought he could.
Search the whole Pacific from Pylstaart, the southern sentinel of the Friendlies, to the one-time buccaneer-haunted, far-away Pelews; thence eastward through the white-beached coral atolls of the Carolines and Marshalls, and southwards to the cloud-capped Marquesas and the sandy stretches of the Paumotu and you will find no handsomer men or more graceful women than the light-skinned people of Rapa-nui.
But as Sera was a half-caste native of the Pelews, and had never been to a civilised country, she also concurred with me that Donald and myself should run the show, which, although I was not a married man, was to take place in my house on account of the greater space available.
You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands and read your eyes out, you will never find what I find. If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
Cattle, goats, poultry, &c., have been sent there and thrive well. The Pelews have a considerable trade with China. "Now it seems to me that we had better cross the equator with all expedition, for there are so many islands up here, we cannot possibly go to all, and I think we have noticed the most important." DORA. "South Polynesia then.
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