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Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that Polynesian word. In this the ancient was in nowise unlike the rest of his dark- skinned Melanesian race. One of his tambos (tambo being beche-de-mer and Melanesian for "taboo") was that water unavoidable must never touch his skin. |
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