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Mani was a half-caste -- father a Martinique nigger, mother a Samoan -- twenty-two years of age, and lived at Moata, a little village two miles from Apia in Samoa.
Mani's husband was a Frenchman named Francois Renault, who, when he was sober, worked as a boat-builder and carpenter, for the German "factory" at Matafele. And when he was away form home I would hear Mani laughing, and see her playing with her two dark-skinned little girls, and talking to them in a curious mixture of Samoan-French. They were merry mites with big rolling eyes, and unmistakably "kinky" hair -- like their mother.