The Flemmings And "flash Harry" of Savait

ts, and settled down as a resident trader at the large and populous village of Tuuhora, where he soon gained the respect and confidence--if not the friendship--of the Anaa people, one of the proudest, most self-reliant, and brave of any of the Polynesian race, or their offshoots. For though he was a keen business man, he was just and honest in all his transactions, never erring, as so many traders do, on the side of mistaken generosity, but yet evincing a certain amount of liberality when the occasion justified it--and the natives knew that when he told them that tobacco, or biscuit, or rice, or gunpowder had risen in price in Tahiti or New Zealand, and that he would also be compelled to raise his charges, they knew that his statement was true--that he was a man above trickery, either in his business or his social relations with them, and would not descend to a lie for the sake of gain. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.