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What does the author mean when he says that Fairweather paradoxically finds his feelings of humanity expanding to include Englishmen, colonials and Māoris?
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The author means that Fairweather paradoxically finds his feelings of humanity expanding to include Englishmen, colonials and Māoris, coupled with a growing resentment of racism and injustice. In the end, he almost throws his future away by struggling to save a Māori boy, Hamiora, who, like Melville's Billy Budd, was unjustly charged with treason.