Crossword-Solution: HANGA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

All Norway, with a host of precious memories, rises out of the mist of the past at the very first verse: "Og vetli Nils Finn skuldi ut at gå, Han fek inki ski 'i tel at hanga på --'Dat var ilt' sa'd 'uppundir.'" Neither Wergeland nor Welhaven nor any other poet has with all his rapturous description of fjord, valley, and mountain, this power to conjure up the very soul of the Norseland.

You would have to go far to see a prettier island than Raka-hanga, or nicer, friendlier, finer-looking people; and when I say they never watered their copra on us, nor worked any of those heartbreaking boycotts to bring prices down, you can realize how much out of the beaten track it was and how little they had yet learned of civilization.

But Peter wasn't gunning for any missionary, which even in Raka-hanga might have had a nasty comeback--the natives being mild but not cowards, and beginning to buzz like hornets and reach for their shark-tooth spears.

But this is all by the way to give you an idea of what Raka-hanga was like, and make the rest of the yarn the easier to understand.

One of these strangers is the new manager of Hanga run, who is on his way northwards to take charge of his new scene of labours, and the other two are mining speculators up from Brisbane to look at a new find of silver in the neighbourhood.