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He knew them as the city dweller knows his buildings, streets, and alleys. "Papakena and Vanavana are off there to the westward, or west-nor'westward a hundred miles and a bit more," he said. "One is uninhabited, and I heard that the people on the other had gone off to Cadmus Island. Anyway, neither lagoon has an entrance. Ahunui is another hundred miles on to the nor'west.
We ran ashore on a reef off Ahunui, and lost nearly everything of course I was half-owner and lived on the Paumotus for nearly a year before I could get away to Auckland. Then I came to Sydney best place for another ship, you know but couldn't get one. Had to pawn all my gear to keep myself going.
"Ah!" the contemptuous ring in her voice made the man's eyes drop "thou art like all White Men was there ever one who was faithful? What other woman is it that thou desirest? Is it Nia of Ahunui she who, when thy boat lay anchored in the lagoon, swam off at night and asked thee for thy love the shameless Nia?"
O'Shea kept his word, for two days later Malia, the half-caste daughter of Ristow, the trader at Ahunui, stepped from out her father's whaleboat in front of O'Shea's house.
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