The Samoans apply the term ‘Tâfito’ to all natives of the Gilbert Group and other equatorial islands. The word is an abbreviation of Taputeauea (Drummond’s Island), and ‘Tâfito’ is synonymous for ‘savage’—in some senses.

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Polynesian labourers are generally termed ‘boys.’

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The native dog of Australia, whose long, accentuated howl is most distressing to hear.

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English whale-ship boats generally used two line tub’s— American only one. No doubt this boat was lost from an English whaler, the Britannia, then on the coast.

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Publisher’s Note.—The strange but true story of the Bryants is told in a volume entitled A First Fleet Family. (Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1896.)

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Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from 1833 to 1836. By F. D. Bennett.

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Tetuaroa is an island about forty miles from Tahiti. It was in those days (1808) part of the hereditary possessions of the chief of Paré.

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A man distinguished in warfare.

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Nasal flute.

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Tetoro’s canoe, in which he sent his daughter to Tetuaroa, was painted black by an English sailor who, living under his protection, afterwards married his daughter.

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The conch shell.

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Meaning in rank.

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A ‘backbirder’ is the term applied to any person engaged in the Polynesian labour traffic.

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‘Gin,’ or ‘lubra’—the female Australian aboriginal.

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Foreigner.

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A man or an animal is loia when he or it has eaten or drunk to such repletion as to lie down and be overrun with ants—an expressive Samoan synonym for excess.

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