Twenty Years Before the Mast.
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the ceremony was over, go down to the reef, into the water, and disfigure her face and body with the sharp
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QUEEN EMMA, ONE OF TANOA’S WIVES.
edge of a small shell, causing the blood to flow. After such a performance she looked as if she had been dragged through a thicket of brambles.