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.    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .     . . . No. Those who have lived only in the midst of the half-civilized hussies of Papeete, who have learned from them only the easy mongrel Tahitian which is spoken on the beach, only the ways and manners of the colonized town—those who think of Tahiti merely as an isle of luxury, where everything 33seems to have been created for sensual pleasure and the gratification of the appetites—those, I say, know nothing of the real charm of that land.