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persons, as of Brainerd and Henry Martyn. If others, as

Samuel Pearce, Richard Knill, and Fidelia Fiske, are less generally known, yet there are probably many who are acquainted with their names, and know something of what they did. Bat who was linaisiline The answer is exceedingly interesting. He was a chief of Mare, one of the Loyalty Islands. He seems to have been shamefully treated by the French, whose conduct in the Pacific seems to have been guided by an unscrupulous proselytism, backed up by an equally unscrupulous desire for territory.