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Title: Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Turner, George, 1817 or 18-1891
Subjects: Polynesia Missions
Publisher: London J. Snow
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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low was shot at, andmortally wounded, and, when taken on shore bleed-ing and dying, his enraged companions roused allwho were on the spot to seek instant revenge. Hencethe deadly attack on the party in the boats at thebeach, in which the stones flew like bullets from asteam-gun, and which ended in the death of M.de Langle, his brother officer, and ten of the crew.The natives wound up the bodies of the French-men in native cloth, and decently buried them, asthey do their own people. The only inference, pro-bably, which ought to have been drawn from thistragic occurrence was, that heathen natives have akeen sense of justice, and that if men will go uponthe disproportionate principle of a life for a tooth,and shoot a man for a perfect trifle, they must abideby the consequences. It is certain to be avenged,and, alas ! it is often the case that vengeance fallsnot on the guilty, but on some unsuspecting visitorwho may subsequently follow. For the next half century the group was dreaded; JUL
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SAMOA. 99 but when our missionaries, Williams and Barff,arrived with Tahitian teachers, in 1830, they weredelighted to find the people quite friendly. Therewas something remarkably providential in the timewhen these good men first visited the people, andin several other circumstances connected with thecommencement of the mission. It was a crisis inSamoan history. Tamafainga, who was supposedto have within him the spirit of one of the principalwar gods, had just been killed. He had not de-scended from any of the royal families of Samoa,but the supposition that he could rule the destiniesof war raised him high in the scale of politicalinfluence. The principal titles of the two largeislands had been given to him, and in pride andprofligacy he had become a pest and a proverb. Aplot was laid for him one night, when he was farfrom home. Some village coquettes threw him offhis guard by their flatteries. Presently he found thatthe house was surrounded by a band of desperadoes.He rushed throug

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