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December 1841, Oahu, Sandwich Islands
The day started off like any ordinary day. Manjiro was sitting on the foredeck trying to untangle a line while Itch read to him from the Polynesian, Honolulu's newspaper. "Arrived: November 20, 1841. John Howland, New Bedford, twenty-four months, fourteen hundred barrels," he read.