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frankly said that he had 'come to Tahiti to preach the 

 gospel of I. W. W.-ism and that he believed the fisher- 

 men had all the right on their side, he was sentenced as 

 "a foreigner without visible means of support, a vagrant, 

 miscreant, vagabond, and dangerous alien," to a month 

 on the roads, and then to be deported to the United 

 States, whence he had come. 



The strike or walk-out was broken. With the cessa- 

 tion of the direction of Kelly and his heartening song, 

 the fishermen gradually went back to their routine, and 

 their women folk to the market. The scales were in 

 operation, but the himene, "Ilahrayrooyah ! I'm a 

 boom! Hahrayrooyah ! Boomagay!" was sung from 

 one end of Tahiti to another, and "Ai dobbebelly dob- 

 bebelly" was made at the Cercle Bougainville a pass- 

 word to some very old rum said to have belonged to the 

 bishop who wrote the Tahitian dictionary. 



