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Show - 168 - Mahia nga nahi kei tamariki ana Be energetic and. carry on the x-rerk while vcnnc The next x^eeks were hanny and carefree. Roa, Moana, and Ruruku fished, swam in the blue x«raters of the lagoon, ran on the white sands of the beach, and took long walks in the forest. Roa was now in his eighteenth summer. On one of those days they were sheltered under the large tree by the white sandy beach as a steady drizzling rain fell. Suddenly Henry Busby appeared from the fern, soaked but smiling, to find Roa at their usual meeting nlace. "Tena koutou e_ hoa ma, Greetings to you, my friends," he said to them, in their native tongue. Roa introduced Moana and Henry. Thev all-talked eagerly of things xW-ich had transpired since |