The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-21
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work it out which meant six months additional toil Further his share of the stolen tobacco earned him
 Port Adams was now three years and a half away so he stole night, hid the islets in Manning Straits, passed through the Straits, aAd De captured two thirds of the va along by the white
 e on 3e d oo G % After week he caps e natives on Ysabel only saltwater who all hundred sticks of tobacco and every time Mauki ven tured down to the sea to steal canoe he chased
 Four months of this passed when, the reward hay and sent back to New Georgia and the road-buildng gang Nov a thousand sticks are worth fifty dol required a year and eight months labor. So Port
 His hornesickness was greater than ever, and not appeal to him to settle down and be good work was caught in the very act of running away. His ager of the Meongea Soap oompany. ". who adiudged him an ineorrgtble The company had plantations on sea. and there it sent it's Solomon Islands incor- ha 1e1e Mag5a was @ 5e hogh 4nn he the night Mauki swan ashore, where he stole two ! Maaita was now to the north, fifty sixty miles caught by light gale driven back Santa Anna, against the return of the schooner Santa Cruz The two rifles the trader recovered but the of tobacco was charged up to Mauki at the rate of other year. The sum of years he now owed the com
 On the way back to New Georgia the schooner dropped anchor in Marau Sound, which lies at the
 
 ashore with handcuffs his wrists and got away to @ epsa Te o 9 5t the n9 F @ Mauk1 was brought by the bushmen with year and before schooner called in he got away this time in whaleboat accompanied by case of the traders Ugi where the Christian natives stole his tobacco sided there The tobacco the natives stole meant an other year for him. and the tale eight years
 sWe'll send him to Howe,' said MT. Haveby. Bunster is there, and we'll let them settle it them. It will be case, imagine of Mauki getting Bunster. Bunster getting Mauki and good riddanee
 Nobody eyer comes @ to Lord d. Howe. or ontong- Java sell tickets to it and tourists do not dream of it's existence. Not white missionary has landed able as they they are primitive @ Yet they were not always hostile and treacherous But the men who compile n the Sailing Directions have never heard of the change who, many years ago. off big bark and killed This m nes a S M e re captains of three trading schooners returned with him the lagoon and proceeded to preach the white mans @ gospel L that only white men shan kill white men, and The schooners sailed up and down the lagoon, har- narrow sand circle no bush s to which 'e to ee ' The men shot doTn at M sight and there was no avoid smashed the chickens and pigs killed and the this continued when the schooners sailed away but the fear of of the white man had been scared into the enough to harm
 Max Bunster the white Lord
 
 glealn Soap Company And the company billeted him Lord Howe, because. next to getting rid of him. the company did not get rid of hn due to the difficulty of finding another to take his place. He was strapping big German, with something in his brain Senni-naadness would be charit- able statement of his condition. He bully coward, and thrice bigger than any savage the island. Being coward, his brutality the coward1y order
 When he first into the companys employ stationed Savo When a consumptive Colonial was sent to take his place. he beat him up with his fists and sent him off a in the schooner that brought him. MT. Haveby selected a young Yorkshire giant to relieve Bunster. The Yorkshire man had repu- But Bunster wouldn't fight. He regular littles z1amb-for ten days at the end of which time the- Yorkshire prostrated by attack of fever. Then Bunster went for him, other things get ting him down and Jumping on him a score or so of times. Afraid of what would happen when his victim where he sgnaized himself by beating up young Engshman already crippled by Boer bullet through both hips.
 . Then it that MT. Haveby sent Bunster Lord Howe the faIlingoG place He celebrated his landing by moppng up half of gin and by thraShng the elderly wheezy mate of the schooner which had brought When the schooner departed he called throw him in wrestling bout promising q 4case- of tobacco to the who succeeded Three kanakas he threw, but promptly thrown by fourth. who of receiving the tobacco, got bullet through his lungs
 And 90 began Bunster's reign Lord Howe. Three thousand people lived principal village it trough Men, women ard child 'cn fled before him. tla dors and I:is got out Of tho while the 1i-ee 1.risters fired of Bunster who ds~urfe1 l9oct euhtect, but struck out with his fists :-cteGi,
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