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Fig. 6j. — A buxom Niuafoouite maiden combing ber lustrous black bair. 



(Photograph by Kellers.) 



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Fig. 68. — Natives roofing a bouse with the fronds of the cocoanut palm. 

 Very little sugar cane, the leaves of which are generally used by the South 

 Sea Islanders as thatch, is grown on Niaufoou. (Photograph by Kellers.) 

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