[Diary kept on Flint Island, Eastern Pacific]. 1889-1891.

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[Diary kept on Flint Island, Eastern Pacific]. 1889-1891.

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A Diary kept 1889-91 by H.I.N. Mouga, overseer on Flint Island in the Southern Line Group. Gives a day-by-day account of life on the guano diggings at Flint Island, Eastern Pacific. It is one of the few first-hand accounts of the Pacific guano industry, and a rare example of written Tahitian of the late 19th century. Lists names of the workers, details daily weather conditions, land areas cleared, coconut palms planted, coconuts harvested, the difficult conditions under which the group worked, and the often difficult relationships between the workers themselves and between them and the Arundel family.

2 v. ; 20 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7052767

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Moouga, H. I. N.

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H.I.N. Moouga, appears to have been of Mangarevan descent and foreman of a team of coconut plantation workers from French Polynesia and Niue, and a member of a party of guano diggers. He was employed on Flint Island by J.T. Arundel & Co., of London. From the description of [Diary kept on Flint Island, Eastern Pacific]. 1889-1891. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225005000 ...

Maude, H. E. (Henry Evans), 1906-

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J.T. Arundel & Co

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