Sacred Texts -- Pacific Islander Religions

Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island: Brutal Treatment of Natives by Early Voyagers

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The brutal treatment that the islanders received from the hands of their early visitors was not calculated to impress them favorably. Usually the strangers were met upon their arrival by a crowd of noisy, restless, impetuous people, as curious as children and as peaceable and friendly with all their boisterousness. The greatest fault they committed was theft, and in return numbers were shot down and innocent persons murdered.

Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island: Brutal Treatment of Natives by Early Voyagers

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