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In the Old, Beach-Combing Days single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 In the Old, Beach-Combing Days
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Charles Wendall, a sailor, has lived amongst the Islanders for forty years. He is alarmed when a group of American missionaries, accompanied by an Islander convert, arrives on the island but the island chief, Togusa, has heard of missionaries and their work and turns them away. The missionaries depart, but they leave behind a deadly legacy.

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    y separately published work icon Pacific Tales Louis Becke , London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1897 Z328199 1897 selected work short story London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1897 pg. 19 - 41
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