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Title: A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, William Webb, 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Joseph, Mo., Hardman press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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native,though not very plenty; it is a kind of duck but has noWINGS. There are no snakes or serpents of any kind onthese Islands. The Fish Commissioner of New Zealandcame down on the same steamer with us. He had been inthe United States for several months and secured quite acargo of fish eggs, which are to be distributed in variouswaters of the Islands. Importation of fish eggs has beengoing on for several years, and their waters are fairlystocked with fish now. Their public schools are about as numerous as ours,and all have an opportunity to get a good education. The crescent of the moon opens towards the northin all southern latitudes, while our moon crescent opensto the south. This peculiarity of the moon had never beenbrought to my attention until actual observation. The Maoris, or colored natives, who originally occupiedthese Islands, are still to be seen in goodly numbersin many parts of the country. They are copper-colored,and about half way between our North American Indian 67
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and the African Negro in physical appearance. Theyhave black straight hair, are kindly disposed people andare treated with the greatest consideration by the whites;in fact, by the laws of New Zealand, the Maoris are toalways have four of their people in the New Zealandlegislature. They have had lands allotted to them, and livein any part of the country they prefer; they have everyprivilege that the white men have, and many of them speakEnglish. They are not good workers, but take life easyand are strictly honest—that is, the full bloods—and willnot enter a white mans house when he is absent. Thereare many mixed bloods among them however, called half-caste, which have a bad reputation for honesty. On March i8th, we sailed from Bluff the south part ofthe South Island, on the Turbine Screw Steamer Moheno,for Melbourne, Australia, distance thirteen hundred miles.We had often heard it reported that the Tasmanian Sea wasawfully rough, but we always had such pleasant sailingweather that

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