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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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and Fredbecame separated from the rest of the party, but without any misgiv-ings as to their safety or loss of way, as they were accompanied byseveral natives, one of whom invited the youths to his house. This was VISITING A FEEJEEAN FAMILY. 175 an invitation not to be ignored; it was accepted at once, and the manled the way along a path to where he lived. It was a hut of driedreeds lashed to a framework of poles, and stood with a dozen similarhuts in the shade of a grove of cocoa-trees. The thatched roof washigh and arched, while the sides were very low, and had no windows.There Avere two doors on opposite sides, but the door-way was so lowthat it was necessary to stoop almost double in order to enter. Infront of the hut was a lot of bones and all manner of refuse, and acouple of pigs were lying across the door-way They showed no in-clination to move as the master of the house approached ; but on catch-ing sight, and possibly smell, of the strangers, they were up and offvery quickly.
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GOING TO CHURCH.—RIVER SCENE. Inside the hut the floor was covered with plaited rushes, and therewas a low partition of reeds dividing it into two nearly equal spaces;one of these was used as kitchen and sitting-room and the other forsleeping; but there was no furniture in either place beyond three orfour of the wooden pillows already described. In one corner of the 176 THE BOY TRAVELLEKS IN AUSTRALASIA.

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