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The children forthwith agreed amongst themselves that Cook was not only a tino tangata, but a tino rangatira a combination of a great chief and a perfect gentleman. How otherwise could he be so kind to them, and so fond of children, argued these youthful sages? Then they saw the captain draw black marks on the quarter-deck and make a speech to the natives, pointing towards the coast.
We must not go the straight road, as the Wazegura living on the right bank of the Pangani river were "out," and in open hostilities with the Wasumbara, and would intercept our passage; and, instead, they proposed our going via Tangata, a much longer route, but open to us if we only took a sufficient number of men, and paid handsomely for the convenience.
Following the coastline, we touched at the villages of Gasi, Wasin, Tanga where I had my first flirtations with the hippopotami, of which more hereafter and Tangata, to inspect ruins and make inquiries about the interior condition of the country.
After he died the house fell into decay, but the tree was fixed on as representing the departed king, and out of respect for his memory it was made the substitute of a living and royal protector. It was called "O le asi pulu tangata," the asi tree the refuge of men. This reminds me of what I once heard from a native of another island.
Accordingly, after taking out all her stores and merchandize, which employed them during five days, she was burnt at certain shoals, called the Shoals of St Raphael . During these five days, the fleet procured a considerable quantity of hens from a village on the coast called Tangata.
Its name, by the way, in the native Maori, is Kai Tangata, or Eat-man House so called, doubtless, in commemoration of the many jolly feasts held in it, on missionaries and others coming within Wordsworth's description of Good theories are such a rarity in the antiquarian world, that it is a luxury to find one which, in reference to this sort of decoration, merits that character.
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