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  • About the beginning of the nineteenth century the first English missionaries in the South Seas thanked God for a safe passage from their homes to Tahiti, and for a virgin soil and an affrightingly wicked people to labor with.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

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