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Updated: June 24, 2025
He showed me all the lions; but more than all, he took me to see a charming lioness a young damsel the daughter of a chief the reputation of whose charms had spread to the neighbouring islands, and even brought suitors therefrom. Among these was Tooboi, the heir of Tamatory, King of Eaiatair, one of the Society Isles. The girl was certainly fair to look upon.
But one could not but be struck by a tragical occurrence, which the page very briefly recounted; as well, as by a noteworthy pictorial illustration of the event in the margin of the text. Save the cut, there was no further allusion to the matter than the following: "This day, being calm, Tooboi, one of the Lahina men, went overboard for a bath, and was eaten up by a shark.
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