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The rise of the copra trade brought a new type of Westerner--the resident copra trader.  They often stayed for two years, sometimes longer.  Usually they took island wives.  Here a trader in the Marshalls poses with his wife and her pet monkey.
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((Hezel, SJ and Berg, Winds of Change)