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shillings. I was the paymaster for all the natives because I knew about that. The
American quartermaster told me about the trouble with the British. He showed me a paper which said that we should get 70 dollars a month. So he said that we should keep the money for us that was left over when I had paid the laborers but keep quiet about it. There was always more than I needed to pay the laborers.
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We had to unload the cargo from the ships. It was hard work but the
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Colony, gave him work blasting reef passages. He was given a job on Ocean Island as a hospital dresser and as the Ellice community liaison person. He ended up leading a strike of Ellice Island workers against the
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Logs in the current of the sea : Neli Lifuka's story of Kioa and the
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