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Photograph by L. Gauthier 

 THIS VIEW GIVES A FAIR CONCKPTTON OF THE RUGGED BEAUTY OF THE SCENERY IN 



THE MARQUESAS 



The church at the left is the old Catholic cathedral at Ataona. The village is lost in the 

 tropical forest, which grows at the base of mountains rising nearly 5,000 feet above sea-level. 



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