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  • "Jack Hanley was killed at Marovo Lagoon two months ago," Young announced in his mild voice.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • His Santa Cruz boat's-crew escaped in the whale-boat to Choiseul, and Mather, in the Lily, sailed over to Marovo.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • "Jack Hanley was killed at Marovo Lagoon two months ago," Young announced in his mild voice.

    Local Colour 1911

  • His Santa Cruz boat's-crew escaped in the whale - boat to Choiseul, and Mather, in the _Lily_, sailed over to Marovo.

    Adventure Jack London 1896

  • Police in the capital Honiara said the seven men from Marovo in the Western province, who had not been seen since they went fishing before a magnitude 7.2 quake at 11: 36 am Monday (2148 GMT Sunday) triggered a tsunami, had been located and were safe.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia, had his head sawed off by a black Mary (woman) and an old nigger with only one leg, having left the other leg in the mouth of a shark while diving for dynamited fish.

    THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN 2010

  • "His own house-boys did it," Young went on; "but they were put up to it by the Marovo natives.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • There was old Johnny Simons -- twenty-six years on the raw edges of Melanesia, swore he knew the niggers like a book and that they'd never do for him, and he passed out at Marovo

    The Inevitable White Man 1911

  • "His own house-boys did it," Young went on; "but they were put up to it by the Marovo natives.

    Local Colour 1911

  • "His own house-boys did it," Young went on; "but they were put up to it by the Marovo natives.

    Adventure Jack London 1896

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