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But and the more you study the Polynesian, the subtler are his strange laws and taboos the main provision in the Arioi constitution was undoubtedly conceived in the desire to prevent over-population. Pepe, the woman of Tuatini, had returned to the ways of the Arioi because her husband had adopted the white convention of jealousy and monogamy.
And Lovaina said, in English for Considine, whom she had brought to Mataiea, and for Brooke: "She had five children by that Tuatini. He is custom-officer at Makatea, phosphate island, near T'ytee. He been gone one year, an' she get very fat, but she don' say one thing. Then she get letter speakin' he come back nex' week.
The Arioi, minstrels of the tropics Lovaina tells of the infanticide Theories of depopulation Methods of the Arioi Destroyed by missionaries. Lovaina came out to Mataiea with the news and gossip of the capital. A wretched tragedy had shocked the community. Pepe, the woman of Tuatini, had buried her new-born infant alive in the garden of the house opposite the Tiare Hotel.
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