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Updated: June 6, 2025
This was the island of Tatakotoroa also known as Narcissus, or Clarke Island to the eastward of the Paumotu or Low Archipelago of the South Seas. The sailing directions describe the inhabitants as 'hostile, and Sir Edward Belcher mentions that some of them tried to cut off the boats sent from a man-of-war for water.
Outside the bath I hear the vehicles hurrying to market, and dressing quickly in white drill, and wearing on my Paumotu hat a brilliant scarlet pugaree, once the badge of subjugation to the Mohammedan conquerors of India, I join the procession. Bon dieu! what a morning! The reds and purples are dying in the orient, and the hills are swathed in the half-white light of day.
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