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Page 118
... native village . When you turn to the right from the hotel , you pass more stores , Government buildings , the English club , and then you come to another native village . In the back part of Apia are stores and small frame houses in ...
... native village . When you turn to the right from the hotel , you pass more stores , Government buildings , the English club , and then you come to another native village . In the back part of Apia are stores and small frame houses in ...
Page 137
... native with blue eyes , tall and stout ; he spoke a little English and perhaps his father was an English sailor . As ... native woman sat on the deck , smoking the big native cigarettes one after the other . A Chinese boy was constantly ...
... native with blue eyes , tall and stout ; he spoke a little English and perhaps his father was an English sailor . As ... native woman sat on the deck , smoking the big native cigarettes one after the other . A Chinese boy was constantly ...
Page 142
... native comes , takes it up quickly and throws it in the old kerosene can which he has strapped on his shoul- der ... natives had spread a net among the coral rocks of the lagoon and we had a number of fish to use as bait . It was rather ...
... native comes , takes it up quickly and throws it in the old kerosene can which he has strapped on his shoul- der ... natives had spread a net among the coral rocks of the lagoon and we had a number of fish to use as bait . It was rather ...
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