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The Beachcombers

The Beachcombers

Bishop, Gilbert

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ISBN10: 0217887104
ISBN13: 9780217887106
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 9.00 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. KILLED AND EATEN. White fellow him finish! Miokona plenty fellow kaikai white fellow ! The speaker was Birara, a tall, handsome old Solomon Island chief, who, standing in his canoe, gesticulated expressively to emphasise his startling announcement. The white fellow referred to as kaikaied, that is, eaten, was an old beachcomber, whose real name had become lost in his sobriquet Samoan Tom, who had had charge of a trading station for the purchase of beche-de-mer, copra.t tortoiseshell, and other island products from the natives, giving in exchange coloured beads, red cloth, knives, axes, and such articles of trade as delight the hearts of the islanders. The person addressed was Captain Birtle, of the schooner Bonito, a short, stout, jovial-looking sailor, with a complexion but a few shades lighter than that of the Solomon Islander. He was the head of an extensive system of trading amongst the Western Pacific Islands, and had just sailed through the opening in the reef, intending to ship the produce purchased by Samoan Tom, and to replenish his agent's stock of trade and provisions before proceeding to Sydney with the cargo gathered from the various stations throughout the islands. A sea slag, highly appreciated by Chinese epicure. f Dried cocoa-nut kernel. Miokona, the accredited cannibal, was the chief of a powerful tribe living among the hills a short distance inland. What for Miokona mat6 white fellow ? inquired Captain Birtle, in the sandalwood English so readily understood by every native race throughout the Pacific. White fellow too muchy tokelau toddy, show um plenty bacca, plenty bokkus (boxes), plenty eberyting. Miokona want. White fellow no give. Miokona ten one fellow finish white fellow. Ah I said Capt...

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