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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Here is Tarawa; here is Apia in Samoa, nearly fifteen hundred miles distant. Here is the island of Ovalau in Fiji, about the same distance. Do you see?" "Yes, I see." "And here, north-west from Tarawa, is your home on Guam more than two thousand miles away. 'Tis a long, long way but it could be done." "A long, long way indeed." She lifted her eyes to me and then she placed her hand on mine.
And then, sometimes, a long snaky-looking brigantine, with the name Atlantic on her stern, and the Stars and Stripes flying from her gaff, would sail into the noisy little port nestling under the verdured hills of Ovalau Island, and a big man, with a black, flowing beard, and a deep but merry voice, would be rowed ashore by a crew of wild-eyed, brown-skinned Polynesians, and "'Bully' Hayes has come!
As I look back on my life with this great Fijian prince and his people, it all somehow seems unreal and an existence far apart from the commonplace life of civilization. After a smooth passage we arrived the same evening at Levuka, on the island of Ovalau. After a stay of a day here, I sailed in a small schooner which carried copra from several of the Outlying islands to Levuka.
As night came on, and the green hills of Ovalau Island changed to purple, Brabant turned suddenly to his officer. "Come below, Pedro, I want to talk to you." The Chileno followed him in silence, and the two men remained conversing in almost whispered tones for some time. "Tell me," asked the Chileno, fixing his dark eyes on the captain's face; "when did you first begin to suspect?"
It is all, as I am assured, under the regulation of the Consul at Ovalau, and "managed" properly. The traders don't know the Tannese language, and have no means of making the people understand any terms, and to talk of any contract is absurd. Yet, a large number of Tanna men, living on really well- conducted plantations, owned by good men, might lead to a nucleus of Christian Tannese. So says Mr.
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