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Following the Equator

CHAPTER VI
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Regulation 31 forbids these coercions.

The law requires that he shall be allowed to go free; and another clause of it requires the recruiter to set him ashore--per boat, because of the prevalence of sharks.

Testimony from Rev.Mr.Gray: "There are 'wrinkles' for taking the penitent Kanaka.

My first experience of the Traffic was a case of this kind in 1884.

A vessel anchored just out of sight of our station, word was brought to me that some boys were stolen, and the relatives wished me to go and get them back.


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