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Updated: January 13, 2026

These Tahitians were without artillery, mostly without guns of any sort, but they utilized the old strategy of the intertribal wars, and rolled huge rocks down upon the French troops in narrow defiles. We saw from our seats through the shadows of the gorge of Punaruu two of the horns of Maiao, the Diadem.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.