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"There," said Tavita the teacher, pointing with his paddle to a long, narrow peninsula which stretched out into the shallow waters of the lagoon, "there, that is the place where the battle was fought. In those days a village of thirty houses or more stood there; now no one liveth there, and only sometimes do the people come here to gather cocoanuts."
The White Man nodded. "Tis a fair place to look upon. Let us land and rest awhile, for the sun is hot."