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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: means of buttressing the throne. Nakaeia kept his harem busy for
himself; Nanteitei hired it out to others. In his days, for
instance, Messrs. Wightman built a pier with a verandah at the
north end of the town. The masonry was the work of the seventeen
queens, who toiled and waded there like fisher lasses; but the man
who was to do the roofing durst not begin till they had finished,
lest by chance he should look down and see them.
It was perhaps the last appearance of the harem gang. For some
time already Hawaiian missionaries had been seated at Butaritari -
Maka and Kanoa, two brave childlike men. Nakaeia would none of
their doctrine; he was perhaps jealous of their presence; being
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