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But for one native Easter Islander, these long-dead European composers are a daily inspiration.

Toward the end of the book, as if drugged with an Easter Islander's point of view, he wonders whether the statues really did fly.

The second day a man died, an Easter Islander, one of the best divers that season in the lagoon.

Nineteen able labourers are all the trader at Taiohae can muster for the loading of copra on shipboard, and in their veins runs the blood of English, American, Dane, German, French, Corsican, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Hawaiian, Paumotan, Tahitian, and Easter Islander.