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| Title | Myths and Songs from the South Pacific |
| Author | William Wyatt Gill |
| Contributor | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | H. S. King & Company, 1876 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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