
Faery Lands of the South Seas, by Hall & Nordhoff, Part 2
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The Atoll of Tahiti
I envied Kriton his opportunity for friendship with a noble old woman. Her type is none too common among Polynesians in these days. One gets all too frequently an impression of a consciousness of inferiority on their part. Ruao was not guilty of it. She never could be, I think, under any circumstances. We sighted her at all at dawn, such a dawn as one rarely sees outside the tropics. It was by far the most dangerous-looking landing-play so we had seen on the journey.
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