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leaving his side. But finding that the young 
fellow, who was barely past eighteen years of 
age, was unmoved by her attentions, she not 
only became exceedingly unhappy, but declared 
that if she continued to receive the same in¬ 
difference and neglect, she would either strangle 
or drown herself. Like the Niuean girl before- 
mentioned, she had friends who sought to dis¬ 
suade her from her purpose; but as she declared 
her determination was unaltered, they used their 
endeavours with the stranger, who afterwards 
returned the attentions he had received, and the 
couple were married at Huahine. His com¬ 
panions pursued their voyage, and afterwards 
returned to Tahiti, while the newly-married 
couple continued to reside with the chieftainess 
Teraimano. Their happiness, however, was of 
short duration ; not that death dissolved their 
union, but that attachment which had been so 
ardent in the bosom of the young woman before 
marriage was superseded by a dislike equally as 
powerful, and she subsequently treated her 
youthful husband with insult and contempt, 
and finally left him.” 
In 1882, when I resided on Madurd, one of 
the Marshall Islands, a young man, Jelik, a 
