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difficult to guess, for the people of Malayta were then, as they are
now, cannibals.

On August 7, 1875, the Queensland labour recruiting schooner _Bobtail
Nag_ was cruising off the island, trading for yams, and her captain
heard from some natives who came alongside that there was a white man
living ashore in a village about ten miles distant. The skipper of the
_Bobtail Nag_ at once offered to pay a handsome price if the man was
brought on board, and at the cost of several dozen Birmingham steel
axes and some tobacco poor Renton's release was effected. He told his
rescuers that the people among whom he had lived had taken a great fancy
to him, and had treated him with great kindness.

If the reader will look at a chart of the South Pacific, he will see,
among the Phoenix Group, the position of McKean's Island; two thousand
miles distant, westward and southward, is the island of Malayta, upon
which Renton and his companions in misery drifted.

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