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Young folks library (1902)

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 130

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weeks were passed in sailing around thisisland in search of a harbor. At length the shipscame to an anchor, on the morning of January 17th,1779, in Karakavoa. Here a vast number of peoplewere assembled to witness, to them, the so novel spec-tacle. Multitudes came off in canoes, crowding intothe… … Natives of the PolarRegions. 102 A Book of Famous Travels they fancied Captain Cook to be their god Rono, whoafter a long absence had returned to their island. Atthe time this he of course did not know, or he wouldnot have received the worship paid to him. No soonerwas the Resolution moored, than…

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