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Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas

CHAPTER LXXIX
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Bigamy:--forty days on the Broom Road, and twenty mats for the queen.

Read the passage aloud, and sentence is pronounced.
After taking part in the first trial, the other delinquents present were put upon their own; in which, also, the convicted culprits seemed to have quite as much to say as the rest.

A rather strange proceeding; but strictly in accordance with the glorious English principle, that every man should be tried by his peers.

They were all found guilty..


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