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Excerpt from Tahiti
George calderon was killed in Gallipoli on 4th June 1915. He had visited Tahiti in 1906. Its people and their life had sunk very deeply into his heart but when he returned home he deliberately put his diaries aside, postponing for several years the book he intended to write, in order that he might recall the memory in due perspective. Meanwhile he made laborious and exhaustive research into the history of the European in?uences to which the island had been exposed, for comparison with his own impressions.
He began to write his book in the winter Of 1913-1914 and was at work on it for some months before the war. He left it incomplete, but there is a synopsis which shows how he meant to construct it. Some parts of the book were practic ally finished others existed in many forms, among his notes and sketches, and with the help Of these the book has been brought to the shape in which it is now published.
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