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Lowell in 1896 appeared decisive in its favour; Tacchini at Rome, Mascari at Catania and Etna, Cerulli at Terano, obtained in 1892-6 evidence similar in purport.
To these councils, Mowno had opposed a determined resistance, and he had finally sent his followers to despatch an old man named Terano, whose death would be considered a general benefit, as he was a notorious and inveterate thief and drunkard, who, when not stupefied with ava, was constantly engaged in desperate broils, or wanton depredations upon the property of his neighbours.
"`No! it shall not be either of the strangers; it shall be Terano: he is an evil man, and it will be well when he is gone. Then speaking to two of those who stood near him, he said, `Go quickly to Terano's house, before he sees the messenger and hides himself in the mountains, whereupon they seized their spears, and immediately set off in the direction of the village.
With smiling faces they welcomed him a stranger from an unknown, outside world, with cutlass at waist and pistol in hand as a god; he left them a legacy of civilisation a hideous and cruel disease that swept through the amiable and unsuspicious race as an epidemic, and slew its thousands, and scaled with the hand of Death and Silence the eager life that had then filled the square houses of lava in many a town from the wave-beaten cliffs of Terano Kau to Ounipu in the west.
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