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  • In addition to her eight or ten kanaka seamen, her white captain, mate, and supercargo, and her six cabin passengers, she sailed from Rangiroa with something like eighty-five deck passengers -- Paumotans and Tahitians, men, women, and children each with

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • Smallpox, that is what it was, though how smallpox could come on board when there had been no known cases ashore when we left Rangiroa is beyond me.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • In addition to her eight or ten kanaka seamen, her white captain, mate, and supercargo, and her six cabin passengers, she sailed from Rangiroa with something like eighty-five deck passengers -- Paumotans and Tahitians, men, women, and children each with

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • (Coincidentally, the even mightier and more popular story, "To Build a Fire," was published in The Century Magazine less than a month later.) "The Heathen" is Otoo of Bora-Bora and the story is of Otoo and the narrator, Charley, a pearl-buyer and passenger on the Petite Jeanne, a seventy-ton trader sailing from Rangiroa to Papeete, Tahiti.

    “Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

  • This ecoregion includes the widely dispersed islands of the Tuamoto archipelago and Pitcairn group, stretching from Manihi and Rangiroa to Pitcairn, Henderson, and Ducie Islands.

    Tuamotu tropical moist forests 2007

  • French islands of Takaroa, Rangiroa and Raroia, calling them simply cryptobranchus salamandroides; there was also a report from H.W. Spence in which he claimed to have recognised a new order of pelagidae, native to the Gilbert Isles, which could be classified under the species name of pelagotriton spencei.

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • Smallpox, that is what it was, though how smallpox could come on board when there had been no known cases ashore when we left Rangiroa is beyond me.

    The Heathen 1914

  • Rangiroa, and Fakarava, thus proving that he had sailed as far as the Paumotus -- undoubtedly one of the crew of a trading schooner.

    Chapter 12 1913

  • Rangiroa, and Fakarava, thus proving that he had sailed as far as the Paumotus -- undoubtedly one of the crew of a trading schooner.

    Chapter 12 1911

  • Smallpox, that is what it was, though how smallpox could come on board when there had been no known cases ashore when we left Rangiroa is beyond me.

    South Sea Tales: The Heathen(DL SunSITE) 1911

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