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graziers and tanners in respect of the San Franciscan leather, the free-traders were equally successful; the islanders resolutely determined to maintain the trade, and when the choice was presented to them between a temporary loss on a few among their number, and a permanent loss on the whole of the inhabitants of the island, they had little difficulty in selecting the former as the less of two evils.

THE END.

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