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one out of every ten fish that were caught, 
and sometimes a man or woman who had 
offended him was seized and bound and thrown 
out to be eaten. 
♦ • • • • 
And so the years passed. Tati had grown 
old now, but was a stronger man than any 
other chief of the Thousand Isles, for he had 
great riches in wives and slaves and canoes, 
but yet was for ever gloomy and morose, for 
not one of his wives had borne him a child, 
and it cut him to the heart to think that he, 
a great chief, should die childless, and be 
shamed. 
One day as he sat in his house, his heart 
filled with heavy thoughts, there passed before 
him a young girl named Hino-riri—the child 
of Riri. She bent her body when she saw 
Tati’s eye fall upon her and would have 
passed on, but he called her back and asked 
her name. And as she spoke to him he saw 
that her skin was whiter and her hands and 
feet smaller than those of any other woman 
he had seen, and so he said— 
“ None of my wives hath given me a child. 
Art thou asked in marriage by any man ? ” 
