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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Passing from Fiji to Samoa," he said, "I had to leave the mail at Niuafou, in the Tongan Islands. It is a tiny isle, three miles long by as wide, an old crater in which is a lagoon, hot springs, and every sign of the devastation of many eruptions. The mail for Niuafou was often only a single letter and a few newspapers.
"Big weather he come, I think," he said. "I see him just the same before maybe five, six times." Grief nodded. "Hurricane weather, all right, Jackie-Jackie. Pretty soon barometer go down bottom fall out." "Sure," the Tongan concurred. "He goin' to blow like hell." Ten minutes later Snow came on deck. "She's started," he said; "29.85, going down and pumping at the same time.
There is neither an island nor a reef by which we can regulate the chronometer. The only thing to do " "Land ho, skipper!" the Tongan called down the companionway. Grief took a quick glance at the empty blank of the chart, whistled his surprise, and sank back feebly in a chair. "It gets me," he said. "There can't be land around here. We never drifted or ran like that.
It didn't seem quite the right remark under the circumstance, but there was a power of truth back of it. That girl of mine was regularly struck on Old Dibs, and, being a Tongan, was full of the Old Nick, and would have bit my ear off if I had lifted my hand to him.
"What's wrong with Leith?" I asked. "What are you hinting at?" Holman glanced at the Tongan at the wheel, then at the shadow patch that had disturbed his nerves a few moments before. "He's the devil!" he whispered. I felt inclined to laugh.
I know it is true, because I know it," is the exemplar and epitome of the sceptic-crushing process in other places than the Tonga Islands. In Tongan tradition, this place of souls is a sort of elysium above ground and pleasant enough to live in.
The Tongan on his arrival gave him the large mock nut, minus the real nut and kernel, and the Samoan handed him the basket with the pretended white fowl. The Tongan jumped into his canoe again, and went off in high glee singing: "Niu niu, pulu! Niu niu, pulu!" "Cocoa-nut, cocoa-nut, Only a husk!"
"Early in 1836 a canoe, on board which was Josiah, a converted Tongan, with other Christians, sailed from Lakemba for Tonga, but was driven out of her course to Turtle Island, about fifty miles from Ono. Hearing when there that the people of Ono were seeking after religious instruction, Josiah hastened there to tell them all he could of the gospel.
I wished him happy dreams, and come down, all three of us setting out for home with the truck and the gear, my wife in a tantrum at our having threatened to desert Old Dibs when he acted so cowardly. Tom made it worse by saying the Kanakas were losing all respeck for whites, and if he was married to a Tongan, and was spoken to like that, he'd quit by gum, that's what he'd do!
The last cook was suffering from a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder, so Bunster made Mauki cook and general house-boy. And Mauki soon learned that there were white men and white men. On the very day the schooner departed he was ordered to buy a chicken from Samisee, the native Tongan missionary. But Samisee had sailed across the lagoon and would not be back for three days.
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