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| | Mystic Isles of the South Seas |
 | | He would be three miles out, swimming, with a small log under arm for support, and often he might be in company with thirty page 27or forty of his tribe, who, with only the same slight aids to keeping afloat, would be fishing leisurely. |
 | | It is a beautiful trait in humankind, page 45which, maybe, designing nature has endowed us with to spread her manifold creations, that even the most selfish of men delight in planting in new environments exotic seeds and plants, and in enriching the fauna of faraway islands with strange animals and insects. |
 | | Papeete, with the passing throng gone, was a quiet little town, contrasting with the hours when the streets swarmed with people from here and the suburbs, the band playing, the bars crowded, and all efforts for gaiety and coquetry and the selling of souvenirs and intoxicants. |
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