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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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n,where they have a narrow road built about eight feet wide.While the walking is not good on account of dense under-growth, yet the only way to get there is to walk, whenat Samoan Island. There are only three stores in the town. We visitedall of them, and their combined stocks would not amountto more than two thousand dollars in value. In conversa-tion with one of the proprietors, he said business was fairand that there were other places worse than this for trade. He has been in business here for six years, and is anEnglishman; his stock would be worth, at a fair estimate,two hundred and fifty dollars. As before stated, the natives have almost no use forgoods of any kind, and they scarcely know the use ofmoney; they are almost communistic in their ways. Whilethey are not dishonest and will not steal, yet they will takeand appropriate anything they see that they want. That is,if one of their number has anything that his neighborwants, he simply takes it and the owner will not refuse 29
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NATIVE NEW ZEALAND WARRIOR. him. There are several small villages scattered over theIsland; if any of these villages get scarce of food, theyall go in a body to the next village and stay with them aslong as there is anything to be found there to eat, and thehost makes no objection. We spent three days quite pleasantly in this far-awayand queer country of Samoan Islands. The sun is intenselyhot during the middle of the day, and one that is notaccustomed to this heat should not venture out when thesun is high; he is liable to sunstroke. We did not sufferfrom heat at night. The Fiji Islands are located five hundred miles west ofthe Samoan Islands. We are told there are no cannibalsthere now, as they have been taught by the Missionaries,and many of them are now Christians, but they wereoriginally cannibals. The Solomon Islands, which are near here, arepopulated with savage natives, and they still eat humanflesh, not for a regular diet, but when in war they will killand eat an enemy. We ar

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