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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: rescued (as I gather) by the loyalty of native fish. My
anxiety to learn more of "Ahupu Vehine" became (during my
stay in Taiarapu) a cause of some diversion to that mirthful
people, the inhabitants.
Note 3, "COVERED AN OVEN." The cooking fire is made in a
hole in the ground, and is then buried.
Note 4, "FLIES." This is perhaps an anachronism. Even
speaking of to-day in Tahiti, the phrase would have to be
understood as referring mainly to mosquitoes, and these only
in watered valleys with close woods, such as I suppose to
form the surroundings of Rahero's homestead. Quarter of a
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