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| Title | Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before: Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-three Other Islands in the Pacific |
| Author | George Turner |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1884 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 395 pages |
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