Hino, the Apostate: A 'Tale of 
the Mid-P acific. 
ATI, the chief of Vahitahi, was one of 
X the first among us people of the Thou¬ 
sand Isles (which you Englishmen call the 
Paumotuswho ever beheld a white man. 
When he was but a slender boy, there came 
- to Vahitahi from Hao, another island to the 
west, a great canoe. Those that came in this 
canoe told the men of Vahitahi that they had 
seen a great pahi (ship) which had come to 
Hao, and was full of white men, and many of 
the people of Hao had spoken with them, for 
among those on the ship were three men and 
one woman from Tahiti, and the tongue of 
1 The Paumotu, or Dangerous Archipelago, in the South 
Pacific. 
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