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"'See, said one of these men of Niuafou to us vauntingly, 'see what has come to pass! Tuilagi refused to take for her husband the good and pious man Opataia, but fled with this common white man, who is no better than a heathen. And then what comes? This bad white man is caught by his countrymen and put in a prison with chains upon his body.
When within a few yards, the lieutenant saw a tall, graceful young native girl, clad in semi-European style, advance to the open door, and then with a terrified exclamation withdraw again. * The diminutive of Tuilagi. "She speaks English, but she is afraid of the men with the guns," explained the native guide.
They had fled in an open boat to another island called Anuda one of those dark places of the earth where the good seed has not yet been sown." * Tuilagi "Queen of the Sky"; a name common in Polynesia. "And what was the nature and reason of your objection to their marriage?" said the Admiral quietly.