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Polynesians

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

(As told at the Golden Inn.)

The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more travellers than in any other part.

It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho,* was encountered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians.

Chapter 54, The Town-Ho’s Story · verse 1

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