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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: clothed in a web of lace, inimitably delicate, exquisite in
pattern, and of a bluish hue that at once contrasts and
harmonises with the warm pigment of the native skin. It
would be hard to find a woman more becomingly adorned than "a
well-tattooed" Marquesan.
Note 6, "THE HORROR OF NIGHT." The Polynesian fear of ghosts
and of the dark has been already referred to. Their life is
beleaguered by the dead.
Note 7, "THE QUIET PASSAGE OF SOULS." So, I am told, the
natives explain the sound of a little wind passing overhead
unfelt.
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