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Updated: June 19, 2025
"The Cutaria, as you doubtless know, went down off the Taya Islands, a small group to the east of the large island of Hainan, which, in turn, is off the coast of China, being separated, if that is a good word to use in this connection, from the eastern coast by the Gulf of Tong King. "Immediately following the sinking of the ship divers were sent down.
Then, before the missionary and his wife could realise what was happening, Banderah had run to the beach, swam to the boat, seized the painter, gained the shore again, and pulled her along till opposite the trader's house, just as Blount and Taya, supporting Mrs. Deighton between them, were leaving the house to meet him.
"Over there, straight to the west," Ned said, pointing from the conning tower of the submarine, "is the coast of China, not far from seventy-five miles away." "And there, to the north," Frank said, "lie the Taya Islands. The big fellow beyond is Hainan." The sun was going down into the Gulf of Tong King like a ball of red fire, and the night was far from cool.
She holds that 'Tãyas erey' or 'Tãya serey' should be read 'Tanaz serey, 'I shall be tenacious' for Tanaz is old Portuguese for Tenaz and that the Y is nothing but a rebus or picture of a tenaz or pair of pincers, and indeed the Y's are very like pincers.
"What the devil is wrong?" muttered Blount, as without waiting to touch the coffee prepared for him he went outside to the copra-house. In half an hour he and the native chief came out together, and as they stood for a minute in the broad streak of light that streamed out from the lamp on the table in the big room, Taya, who sat in the doorway, saw her father's face was set and stern-looking.
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