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Updated: May 2, 2025
In no stage do they attempt a cure; the complaint being held incurable. Speaking of the Fa-Fa reminds me of a poor fellow, a sailor, whom I afterward saw at Roorootoo, a lone island, some two days' sail from Tahiti. The island is very small, and its inhabitants nearly extinct.
We sent a boat off to see whether any yams were to be had, as, formerly, the yams of Roorootoo were as famous among the islands round about, as Sicily oranges in the Mediterranean. Going ashore, to my surprise, I was accosted, near a little shanty of a church, by a white man, who limped forth from a wretched hut.
"Why," said he, "here we are started on a six months' cruise I can't put back; and he is better off on the island than at sea. So on Roorootoo he must die." And probably he did. I afterwards heard of this melancholy object, from two seamen. His attempts to leave were still unavailing, and his hard fate was fast closing in.
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