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16704	Forbes, George	Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century			.txt	text/plain	68437	2628	74	From the knowledge I had picked up on my travels, particularly during the time I was captive among the black cannibals of New Holland, I had acquired the art of understanding, either by words or signs, what savage people wished, by their language, to convey, which to most would have been unintelligible, and from what I could gather it appeared that the young king, who had but lately inherited his kingdom from his father, whose tomb, perched on the top of a tree, was pointed out to us, was threatened with war by a neighbouring chief, the former king's hereditary enemy, and that if we would help him vanquish his opponent he was willing to hand over to us the property of other white men which had been left upon the island in years gone by. On our arrival at Amsterdam Hartog arranged for the disposal and division of our treasure.	cache/16704.txt	txt/16704.txt
