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  • Not until Joan could return on the schooner would this be possible, for the professional recruiters were all under long contracts to the Fulcrum Brothers, Morgan and Raff, and the Fires, Philp Company; while the Flibberty-Gibbet was wholly occupied in running about among his widely scattered trading stations, which extended from the coast of New Georgia in one direction to Ulava and Sikiana in the other.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • Fulcrum Brothers, Morgan and Raff, and the Fires, Philp Company; while the Flibberty-Gibbet was wholly occupied in running about among his widely scattered trading stations, which extended from the coast of New Georgia in one direction to Ulava and Sikiana in the other.

    The Girl Who Had Not Grown Up 1911

  • Company; while the _Flibberty-Gibbet_ was wholly occupied in running about among his widely scattered trading stations, which extended from the coast of New Georgia in one direction to Ulava and Sikiana in the other.

    Adventure Jack London 1896

  • If der _Sikiana_ vas mein own ship I vould dake you und Mr. Carr and der second mate und all your natives to Ponapé for nodings; for your fader vas a good man to me, und Harvey Carr vas a good man to me ven I sailed mit him in the _Belle

    Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

  • _Sikiana_ from calling at the island in a reasonable time.

    Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

  • Three weeks later the _Sikiana_ sailed into the lagoon, and the "good little Dutch skipper," of whom Harvey had spoken, had him brought on board and placed in his bunk for the voyage to Ponapé.

    Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

  • Vote counting in most constituencies is expected to be completed Sunday, although voting in the remote outer regions of Ontong Java and Sikiana will take place Monday because of transport difficulties.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • "We can well wait here for two or three weeks; and the skipper of the _Sikiana_ will be glad enough to earn five or six hundred dollars by giving us a passage to Ponapé.

    Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

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