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Romance, adventure and gold in this story of Maori and whites in New Zealand. A sailor jumps ship to stay with a Maori woman only to discover she is married to the chief. They flirt while the chief is away and she shows him gold deposits. The chief returns early and kills him one day. The skeleton is not discovered til years later when the Maori settlement is almost wiped out by white settlers and two prospectors follow up a hidden gold reef. Well written; predictable; conveys sense of passing civilisation etc. Very colloquial speech. (PB)
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From Pall Mall Budget.
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