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Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others, by
Louis Becke This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: March 29, 2008 [EBook #24952]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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ÂMONA; THE CHILD; AND THE BEAST
Plus THE SNAKE AND THE BELL and SOUTH SEA NOTES
From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories"
By Louis Becke
T. FISHER UNWIN, 1902
LONDON
ÂMONA; THE CHILD; AND THE BEAST'
Âmona was, as his master so frequently told him--accentuating the remark with a blow or a kick--only "a miserable kanaka." Of his miserableness there was no doubt, for Denison, who lived in the same house as he did, was a daily witness of it--and his happiness. Also, he was a kanaka--a native of Niué, in the South Pacific; Savage Island it is called by the traders and is named on the charts, though its five thousand sturdy, brown-skinned inhabitants have been civilised, Christianised, and have lived fairly cleanly for the past thirty years.
Âmona and Denison had the distinction of being employed by Armitage, one of the most unmitigated blackguards