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As we, the "watch below" Niâbon, Tepi, and myself heard Tematau's loud cry, we sat up, and saw a long, dark line pencilled on the horizon right ahead, which we knew was the great lonely atoll named Providence Island on the charts, and called Ujilon by the natives of the North-Western Pacific.
"I shall tell thee at some other time," she replied in the Tarawa dialect, and then pointing to the figure of her companion she said she was sure a smoke would do him good. I gave her a new clay pipe, which she filled, lit, and placed in Tematau's mouth. He drew at it with such a deep sigh of satisfaction that the woman's stern features relaxed into a smile.
"Take this," I said to Niâbon, giving her my Deane and Adams pistol, "and do you and Tepi keep off those in the nearest boat if they come on again." But she waved it aside, and seizing Tematau's carbine, stood up and sent her first shot crashing through the timbers of the boat. "Quick, Tematau," I cried, "get another rifle and fire with me at the second boat.
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