"All the sailors swore that they never saw handsomer made women in their lives, and declared they would all to a man live on two thirds allowance rather than lose so fine an opportunity of getting a girl apiece."
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The Discovery of Tahiti: A Journal of the Second Voyage of H. M. S. Dolphin Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768, Hakluyt Society, vol. 98 (London, 1948), p. 167
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