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Adventure

CHAPTER V--SHE WOULD A PLANTER BE
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Dad planned to go to the Solomons.

I shall look about for some land and start a small plantation.

Do you know any good land around here?
Cheap ?" "By George, you Yankees are remarkable, really remarkable," said Sheldon.
"I should never have dreamed of such a venture." "Adventure," Joan corrected him.
"That's right--adventure it is.

And if you'd gone ashore on Malaita instead of Guadalcanar you'd have been _kai-kai'd_ long ago, along with your noble Tahitian sailors." Joan shuddered.
"To tell the truth," she confessed, "we were very much afraid to land on Guadalcanar.

I read in the 'Sailing Directions' that the natives were treacherous and hostile.


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