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in de zijlijn, erfelijk is, en die den titel voert van kivalu. Hij deelt de bevelen der koningin aan de matapules, de dorps- en stamhoofden, mede, die dan voor de verdere uitvoering hebben te zorgen.
De koningin Am��lie vraagt van haar onderdanen geene belasting; zij leeft van de opbrengst harer landerijen en van de geschenken, die de inlanders haar geven. De grond is onvervreemdbaar: de koningin verpacht aan vreemdelingen landerijen voor den tijd van tien jaren, tegen eene jaarlijksche vergoeding van honderd piasters; die vergoeding is ook verschuldigd als een vreemdeling land van een inlander pacht--koopen kan hij het nooit;--maar dan betaalt hij aan den eigenaar nog bovendien vijf-en-twintig of dertig piasters als huur.
Een paar dagen nadat de koningin, vergezeld van den bisschop en den eersten minister, bij ons aan boord een bezoek had gebracht, was het oogenblik van vertrek gekomen. Over de borstwering van het achterschip geleund, wierp ik een laatsten blik op deze gezegende eilanden, stralende in den laatsten gloed der haastig dalende zon. Langzaam zonk de kust weg; spookachtig teekende zich het wrak van de Lhermitte tegen den witten schuimgordel der riffen. Daar dreunde een kanonschot door de eindelooze ruimte... dat was het afscheid. Weldra omving de duisternis onze boot, drijvende op de wateren van den Stillen-oceaan.

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