Punti

• “You remember a certain night last March -- off Cape Orso in the gulf, when the wind they call the Punti di Salerno was raging down and you had a jib bent for a mainsail, and your foresail close reefed and were shipping more green water than you like to think of.”

  The Children of the King

• “But 1 heard the host bandit 1V1alden inside me say, Zicarecl. 'riow can you be scared f a Punti merchant with no feet?”

  the secret sense

• “Punti, the Chinese who tain, just south of Changmian.”

  the secret sense

• “All the Hakkas in Thistle Mountain admired her, and not just because she robbed Punti people.”

  the secret sense

• “The Punti people on the shore would not; if they interfered with fate, they would be responsible for those two people's undrowned lives.”

  the secret sense

• “He said, "Ai, Nunumu, don't go up there anymore, that's where the Punti merchant died, in the pavilion.”

  the secret sense

• “Of course, the Punti ridiculed them, and on those rare occasions when a Hakka woman wandered into Canton, the city people stared, but these resolute, difficult, obstinate guests from the north refused to be dictated to.”

  Hawaii

• “Then you must go," piously replied the Punti who ran the house.”

  Hawaii

• “Of course, this answer was meaningless to the Punti, so they said, "We still don't understand how you did it.”

  Hawaii

• “Of the one hundred and fifty Punti who were sent, one hundred and ten did not want to go.”

  Hawaii

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