Tahiti/Rarotonga Family Photos, backed

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Tahiti/Rarotonga Family Photos, backed

• The fishing fleet was well worth seeing
• How tired we where coming back home
• The halls of the village were well worth seeing and with the help of
• Our memory fails some times and for my life I can’t remember this fine old dame and family
• A most wonderful Connell house made of coral walls and iron roof, Here the committee for tribal borh(?) friends + for
• One day Paw, a little girl, a big man and I went shooting a species of very small plovar(?) and
• Rarotonga
• Gathering cocoa nuts is part of the year’s job on Peurgya(?) and
• Often spent hours in the water looking for pearl shell through a box with a class in the end
• Happened about every hour of the day ha!
• If a boat up sett or not which
• The happiest of mortals with no matter
• Changing to a new
• Then the nuts are broken and the meat of the nut made into copra, when windshier(?) and dixler(?) took it to Tahiti
• At nights we would sit all evening and listen to the voices of the Pennlyn purple singing and away off in my memory I can still hear this wonderful blending of song for musical they were
• The music was most original and so lively that when once
• They kept on going for an hour or more and of course very much against the wishes of
• While on Pennhyn the man of war Torch arrived with her officers in charge of Commander Norman J. Macahister
• Evert in his sleep and dreams he was all we claimed
• That every inch of his lovely little body was not a man will have to say it to the view of the Tilikum for
• My wee friend baby Winchester and any are who says
• Is the village of Omaka and not least of the family was
• A visiting with our family
• Captain Tepau at the wheel of the Tamarii Tahiti when we went
• Who knew no fear of man or hurricane and respected by all even on this coral island I met a scott by name MacDonald and
• His wife certainly a lovely woman, who clothed by back with a pink shirt covered with roses until I was the envey of the King himself. In this family of Whinchesters was Teo Dexter
• Captain Winchester the kind of men the creator makes no mistakes in the making and his
• Pennhyn Island and the village of Tetautua Sep 2nd 1901, and immediately sighted the
• Canoe Tilikum at its last port of call, behind capt Beal light Vancouver Island, sailed July 6th 1901 and after 58 days or 5400 miles we sighted
• Commits himself to the deep
• Dancing, and came to the conclusion Pennhyn was the home of funny hugs and for trots even
• Jimmy Dexter I had a most wonderful afternoon of
• And you never got tired looking hoisting sails or
• Marry them off sometimes as this picture proves a bride and groom, see how happy the missionary has made them
• Why should they worry, they could all swim from the day they were four and
• The missionary and his family, and while he thought he was right he was not near so much fun as Jimmy was, he
• Pennhyn Island also had a king, his name is Aporo and besides two daughters he had
• Once more my memory fails me. I think this must be Ellis at Manihiki a very nice chap but a great liar.
• Started the dancers needed no more of Jimmy and
• The diver steps to the side of the boat and giving the signal to his keepers he
• Before taking to the water a few words of prayer is said, when
• Another industry is the Pearl Shell of which pennhyn was famous
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