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Title: Samoa 'uma, where life is different
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Churchill, Llewella Pierce, Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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boat and sing, but on shore excursions itwas their duty to attend on horseback, and the op-portunity was offered them to carry on little specu-lations on their own behalf by renting ponies whensuch an opportunity arose, as in this case, when it be-came necessary to mount the greater number of theofficers of the H. B. M. S. Royalist. A trip to Papaseea is always a picnic and a merry-making, for there is something invigorating about thewater of the mountain stream, which is so muchcooler than any water on the beach as almost to seemcold, that it is impossible to avoid growing rapidlyhungry. And there is something so unusual aboutthe sport on the rock as to set even the morose ingood humor. At the same time it must be remem-bered that the Samoans regard it a solemn duty to eaton all occasions when there is anything edible. Butin the islands it is just as easy to extend dinner hos-pitality in the bush as it is in the best domestic ap-pointments. It resolves itself down to an enumera- 260
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A Solomon Island black boy imported to work on the plantations THE SLIDING ROCK OF PAPASEEA. tion of the number of cans that must be opened andthe number of corks that must be drawn, and thoseare operations that can be done just as well in thewoods and by the streams as under the roof of ahouse. The boats crew were sent out ahead, each armedwith the necessary provision for the picnic. But evenwith them out of the way, it was an imposing cavalcadethat set out from the American Consulate on the roadto the woods. With the British officers and the Sa-moan girls and the interpreters and the inevitable Ta-lolo, the party amounted to more than twenty, andthat is a large number in Apia except on steamer days.It made a long and sedate cavalcade down the beachroad in strict obedience to the municipal ordinanceagainst riding faster than a walk. The Royalist con-tingent had come so freshly from a long cruise thatnone of them felt like galloping, and probably all werejust as well satisfied to know

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