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(1)Some colonies accidentally got a cat by swimming to
(2)There it is. 38
(3)The most interesting part of the sailing record is the reaction of the islanders who saw the cat for the first time. The natives met the cat for the first time without seeing anything similar to it and without imagining that there was such a creature
(4)The power of a cat to dominate humans is most evident here
(5)They were especially impressed when they saw our cat.39
(6)John Uniac, a former colonial official, recalled the moment the natives boarded the Mermaid docked off the coast of Queensland in 1823
(7)”I stroked the cat over and over again and lifted it high so that my friends on the beach could see and admire it
(8)The American explorer Tission Peel wrote, “Samoaners were crazy about cats and tried everything to get them from whaling ships that stopped by the island.” 40 In the Harpai Islands, natives stole two cats from Captain James Cook. 41 On the island of Eromango, natives took strings made of Polynesian whitewood with explorers’ cats
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