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They had told us to go round to the north end of the island, where there was a chief named Loli, who would protect us and give us a home. But again evil fortune befell us, for the chief of Fao, hearing of our escape, sent a messenger overland to Loli, claiming us as mea tafea i moana gifts sent to him by the sea and asking him to hold us for him.
"Four days for a ship, longer for a boat," replied Loli shamefacedly; "the gods go with thee, farewell." Once again we sailed towards the setting sun, steering by the stars at night time, and for seven days all went well. Then after that there came calms, and the hot sun beat upon us and ate its way into our hearts, and we saw no sign of land, and only now and then did a seabird come near us.
"Will you tell me, friend, what are the English words that should be spoken by one of us of Nanomea to a ship captain, giving him greeting, and asking him if he hath had a prosperous voyage with fair weather? My heart is sick with envy that Pita and Loli speak English, and I cannot." Forgetting my past experiences of my man, I was fool enough to tell him.
And so Loli, who would have welcomed us, was afraid, and begged us not to land and so bring about bloodshed. "Great is my sorrow, O wanderers," he cried to us, as we sat in the boat a little distance from the beach, "but ye must not land. * The New Hebrides Group. "Is it far?" asked Manaia scornfully.
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