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Updated: May 8, 2025
On the Sunday of the himene nui, I met the French priest as he tied his horse by the door of the Catholic church. He was in a dark cassock or gown, his long, black beard and a flat, half-melon shaped hat giving him a distinctive appearance in the simple settlement.
"The heathens went out to the ship in one o' them boats, and Falk fired on 'em!" "And two of 'em was killed!" Davie exclaimed unnecessarily. Roger now laid half a melon on the floor, its flat side down, and moved the boat slowly over to it. That the half-melon represented the island was apparent to all.
Blowing on it through pursed lips, he turned it about and drew it back toward the half-melon that represented the island. When it was in the lee of the island, he stopped it and looked up at us and smiled and pointed out of the door. We were puzzled. Seeing our blank expressions, he repeated the process. Still we could not understand.
The chief, who had been talking earnestly with his counselors, now made signs to attract our attention. Obviously he wished to tell us a story of his own. He cut out a number of slim canoes from the melon-rind and laid them on the half-melon that represented the island; next, he pushed the ship some distance away on the floor.
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