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 tarpaulin. He told the commodore that as he had been robbed of his home and country he must seek another  island home. We all felt sorry that the anticipations which John had cherished, only a few weeks before, of

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serenely spending the evening of his life at home in his own native country, had been forever blasted. After breakfast we weighed and catted our anchor and stood  for those islands so famous in the song of "Hokey, Pokey,  Winke, Wanke," "I am king of the Tonga Islands."