Word: waqavuka
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...sought a more expressive name for the thing which lay at rest on Naselai Beach. It was a boat, for it had come across the water to Fiji, bearing men. But they had never seen a boat which flew in the air like a bird. The inspiration came suddenly. "Waqavuka" (bird-boat) they cried, and their brown hands fluttered about the plane and the four men who stood beside...
Fiji did not give up Waqavuka easily. The bird-boat might not fly until brown eyes had seen the 200-sovereign purse given by the mayor of Suva to help pay the debts of the white men. Brown noses pressed forward to inhale the perfume of garlands and of a floral American flag tenderly woven by little brown children. Brown fingers touched Waqavuka's talisman, the omnipotent Tambua, tooth of the sacred whale...
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