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Updated: April 30, 2025
Brooke could not watch, but a fierce shout arose from the crowd on shore, they rushed to the great canoe house, and a war fleet was launched, Dikea standing up in the foremost, with a long ebony spear in his hand. Fortunately they were too late: the boats were hauled up, and the brig went off at full sail. Whether the five were killed or carried captive is not clear.
'The island is unlike any other; much more open, much less bush, but it is not coral crag that crops out, but almost bare reddish rock, with but little soil on it, and the population, which is large, finds it hard to procure food. 'Three brothers, Takua, Savai, and Dikea, are the principal men. Local chiefs exercise some small authority in each village.
Brooke's return, Takua and Dikea were furbishing up old guns which some incautious person on board the "Curacoa" had given them, and they were disappointed to find that there could be no attack on the vessel. She, however, was scarcely gone before, at the other end of the island, Vara, four out of five men were killed by a boat's crew. The survivor, Sorova, told Mr.
The whole place was full of wailing. Revenge was all the cry. 'Let not their pigs be killed, said Takua; 'we will give them to Bisope, he shall avenge us. His brother Dikea broke out: 'My humour is bad because Bisope does not take us about in his vessel to kill-kill these people!
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