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Updated: July 13, 2025
Putting down my pipe on the mat beside me, I told old Kaibnka that I desired to talk to them. There was a dead silence at once. "Kaibuka," I said, "hath the dead white man been taken to his wife?" He looked stolidly at me for an instant, and then answered with an air of intense surprise. "Dead white man! What dead white man, Simi? I know of none. We saw no dead white man!"
Thou thyself, Kaibnka, and thou, Berau, were, with many others, in my house when his dead body lay on the floor. Why are ye all so silent? And whither have the girl Niâbon and Tematau gone?" This time I got an answer to my last question, at any rate. "Niâbon and Tematau have gone across the lagoon in a canoe. They desired to talk with the white man's wife.
"Aye, we know of none," echoed the others in unison. I began to feel both angry and uncomfortable, and showed it: but for the moment I was too puzzled to do more than stare at them each in turn. They looked straight before them as if their faces were so many stone jugs they had about as much expression. Again I addressed myself to Kaibnka. "Why do ye make this pretence?
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