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dents, to the island of Ambatiki. It appeared that they had unani- 

 mously come to the conclusion that if he did not remove, they would 

 be obliged to put him to death for their own safety. I could not 

 induce Whippy or Tom to give me the circumstances that occasioned 

 this determination, and Paddy would not communicate more than 

 that his residence on Ambatiki was a forced one, and that it was as 

 though he was living out of the world, rearing pigs, fowls, and chil- 

 dren. Of the last description of live-stock he had forty-eight, and 

 hoped that he might live to see fifty born to him. He had had one 

 hundred wives. 



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