Excerpt from Rarotonga Records: Being Extracts From the Papers of the Late Rev. W. Wyatt Gill, LL. D In the Pacific, as elsewhere, sometimes the Offspring Of a slave woman married to a high chief inherits the father's titles and power. The word mega in Rarotongan also signifies hermit-crab. Some Of the younger natives imagine when using the word unya in the sense Of.' slave, ' that there is a sly allusion to the well-known habits Of the hermit-crab - the slave living in a home belonging to another! But the elder natives ...
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Excerpt from Rarotonga Records: Being Extracts From the Papers of the Late Rev. W. Wyatt Gill, LL. D In the Pacific, as elsewhere, sometimes the Offspring Of a slave woman married to a high chief inherits the father's titles and power. The word mega in Rarotongan also signifies hermit-crab. Some Of the younger natives imagine when using the word unya in the sense Of.' slave, ' that there is a sly allusion to the well-known habits Of the hermit-crab - the slave living in a home belonging to another! But the elder natives were too accurate Observers to overlook the important circumstance that the hermit-crab appropriates the forsaken shell Of another, whereas the slave enjoys the protection of the land owner, or chief, to whom he consequently owes allegiance and service. I regard this explanation as extremely modern, although very ingenious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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