Faery Lands of the South Seas, by Hall & Nordhoff, Part 2
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I Wish I Had Come Out Here Years Ago
In English he had a tendency to prolong his vowels and to omit consonants, which gave his speech a peculiar exotic sound. He made no advances for some time. Neither did I. For more than three weeks we lived together on shipboard,. went ashore together at islands, where we had put in for copra, and all that while we did not exchange above two hundred words in conversation. There was so little talk I can remember the whole of it, almost word for word.
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