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"Thirty years I know ships, but never like 'this. On Raiatea we call her Fanauao." "The Dayborn," Grief translated the love-phrase. "Who named her so?" About to answer, Taute peered ahead with sudden intensity. Grief joined him in the gaze. "Land," said Taute. "Yes; Fuatino," Grief agreed, his eyes still fixed on the spot where the star-luminous horizon was gouged by a blot of blackness.
But here my conscience smites me, that, but for some of my stories, which your Honner taute me, my old master, and my old lady, and the two old 'squires, would not have been able to be half so hardhearted as they be, for all my younge master and younge mistress sayes.
The faint back-draught from the headsails fanned his cheek and chest with a wine of coolness, and he was in an ecstasy of appreciation of the schooner's qualities. "Eh! She's a beauty, Taute, a beauty," he said to the Kanaka lookout, at the same time stroking the teak of the rail with an affectionate hand. "Ay, skipper," the Kanaka answered in the rich, big-chested tones of Polynesia.
He was escorted to a small inn where his only refreshments were two cups of tea. The crowd demanded a speech, and to quiet the yelling, Paul stepped to the porch of the inn and delivered most of the Italian words he knew: "Signori, taute grazie di vostra accoglienza, arrivederie, ciao!" The speech was greeted with great applause and the crowd was satisfied.
After that, with jealously guarded shark-meat for bait, they managed on occasion to catch more sharks. But water remained their direst need. Mauriri prayed to the Goat God for rain. Taute prayed to the Missionary God, and his two fellow islanders, backsliding, invoked the deities of their old heathen days. Grief grinned and considered.
Isn't it the Valetta?" As the men climbed out and lifted the whale-boat slightly up the beach they stole careless glances at the vessel. "It is the Valetta," Taute said. "She carried her topmast away seven years ago. At Papeete they rigged a new one. It was ten feet shorter. That is the one." "Go over and talk with the women, you boys.
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