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Adventure

CHAPTER VIII--LOCAL COLOUR
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News from the world Young had not, but he was filled with news of the Solomons.

Fifteen boys had stolen rifles and run away into the bush from Lunga plantation, which was farther east on the Guadalcanar coast.

And from the bush they had sent word that they were coming back to wipe out the three white men in charge, while two of the three white men, in turn, were hunting them through the bush.

There was a strong possibility, Young volunteered, that if they were not caught they might circle around and tap the coast at Berande in order to steal or capture a whale-boat.
"I forgot to tell you that your trader at Ugi has been murdered," he said to Sheldon.

"Five big canoes came down from Port Adams.


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