Word: thakombau
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...extremely hospitable. The climate (average 77°) is delightful. The Fiji native, one of the world's finest indolent characters, is happy, hospitable, courteous. He is an excellent singer and he sings almost all the time. He is also a superb sailor and navigator. The 19th-Century Chief Thakombau was the title character of Adolf Brewster's King of the Cannibal Isles, and there have been cases of Fijis eating each other and missionaries, but the habit has died...
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