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Tirau came in timidly, clothed only in an AIRIRI or girdle, and slunk into a far corner. "Fine girl, Charley," said the skipper, digging him in the ribs. "Ought to suit you, eh! Make a good little wife." Negotiations then began anew. Father willing to part, girl frightened commenced to cry. The astute Charley brought out some new trade. Tirau's eye here displayed a faint interest.
Then, before doing anything else, I went into the store-room and got the woman a change of clothes a rough, ready-made print gown such as the native women occasionally wear and a warm rug for the man, who was wearing only the usual airiri or girdle of long grass, and then, changing my own sodden garments as quickly as possible, Niâbon and I gave our attention to her companion.
Like all the others present, he wore but the usual airiri, or girdle of grass, round his loins, and his dark reddish-brown body was covered from head to waist with the scars of wounds received in earlier years.
As a practical proof of the solemnity of the occasion, the bridegroom then and there gave Tirau his bunch of keys, which she carefully tied to a strand of her AIRIRI, and, smoking one of the captain's Manillas, she proceeded to bash out the mosquitoes from the nuptial couch with a fan.
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