Wild Life in Southern Seas. 
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day people—principally women and girls—from 
Fatiau, and Hakupu, and Alofi came outside 
my compound wall and challenged my female 
domestics severally and collectively to come out 
and fight; and thereby made my life a misery. 
Pepe the Rejected was, I think, the instigator, 
and at last I had to compromise matters with 
her by presenting her with a cheap concertina 
and a tin of salmon. After that the personal 
assaults ceased, and the opposing forces merely 
indulged in vituperative language across the 
compound wall. 
