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[Straughan <cau...@mj...>]

Ver, Hayes gave the remainder of the population nearly a ton of rice and
several casks of biscuits. "You can pay me when the sky of brass has
broken and the rain falls, and the land is fertile once more," said the
so-called pirate. We made a quick passage to the Caroline Islands,
touching at Kusaie or Strong's Island on our way, and on a Sunday
evening swept into Jakoits Harbour on the island of Ponape before a
strong trade-wind. Here we made engagements for our passengers with a
German planter, and two days later we again were at sea, bound for the
western portion of the Carolines. For the following three or four
months, the brig cruised among the other islands of the Western
Carolines, buying copra and turtle-shell in considerable quantities; for
the much-maligned "Bully," despite his moral obliquity of vision in his
commercial dealings with the merchants of Tahiti and other Polynesian
ports, yet possessed the confidence of the wild Caroline Islanders to a
remarkable degree. Then we returned to Ponape, where we remained a
month, wooding and watering and cleaning the ship's