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Updated: June 3, 2025

After a time Buttchee raised his head and wiped his eyes, in which were many tears but not of sorrow. "Tomeo," said he, "was it worth our while to forsake wives and children, and church, and hymns, and taro fields, and home for th-this?"

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Madman and the Pirate