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driven inshore by the sharks, were the island is in the bands of the so numerous that the party could Chinese, the natives boing too pull them out of the water with apathetic to compete. After staying Fails. One day Major Douglas was month, owing to various delaye, ishing in one of the ship's boats the St. George left for the island with Commander Blair, the captain, of Ruutu, in the Austral group, when they caught a king-fab about 300 miles South of Tahiti. weighing Sb, with a rod and line. This was the only island where they It took them an hour to land the found the male "population at all The women, on the con- The steamship St. George, the Gb, and completely exhausted hostile.
hary were very friendly. They Vessel of the Scientific Expedition-them.
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exceedingly prosperous ry Besearch Association which. el Dartmouth on April 9. 1924, Leaving for the Marquesas on people thingh growing manilla, and with the object of carrying out re November 15, the St. George bad have hug houses. Although there meh work in the Southern and voyage of forty days before really a wonds, many of tho Pastorn Pacific, has now completed arriving at the island of Hiva Oa, natives have cycles which they **********................................................ fur lengthy itinerary, and after a thy land of the anthorn groupide a the grass. A gendarme is month's stay at Panama, left that and the gentre of government. Its the guy white man on the island, y for England. She is expected serury is most pleking, the moun- which tires are anxious to 16 arrive at Dartmouth on or about tins, with theid wonderft pouks keep for themselves. September 15. Major A. T. A. and peaches, Exing dengely wood- Douglas, one of the financial supe with serib ur fir. As regards porters of the enterprise, who wis mute in an rendian existence, second in command of the exp di- some of the plays are a modern ton, has just arised in London, Paradiso explained Major Douglas). having been obliged to return home The natives end delightful people; in advance of the party owing to complete children of Nature, who the vessel run on a ectil roef and
The stack for all an hour. Some pue-☀ argent family business. In a spe- rad u perfectly natural life. Feial interview accorded to a repre- true Marqueras stock is practically sengers, who had been taken on sentative of "The Daily Telo-extinct, and pew generation is hard at Fahiti for conveyance to graph," Mujor Douglas spoke in springing op combosed of a mixture us, were put nshore in the rn of high appreciation of the of Pampeau and Chinese bloca and lifebou in cuss the ship should have results achieved by the expedition, the old native stock. The people heen holed, but they were eventual and declared that the visits paid to tave adopted European clothesly able to make a safe landing. The Galapagos Islands and Gorgona more or less, exert in their homes. The natives are very primitive. let alone justified the undertaking where they wear a red loin-cloth They inhabit tumble down gross The long voyage ans, teemed with with a white flower pattern, that lauts, and, live chiefly on turo and variety and interes throughout, and blends well with their golden-brown fish. Their only menna of illumina By dangers and times of do- skins. All their wants are supplied on at night by burning the
pan
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| Entune to lose one of their lifeboat during a terrific storm in the night I was lifted from its fastening, by a huts wave, but the emplacem, h the help of ten men- bers of the crew, succeeded, at the risk of their lives, in saving the host from being washed overboard. A soon as they entered the Paavonn Canal zo en du 9, the - purty encounter ferible weather, with torrential nustorms six days in the week, until they quitted the zone in Xovefer. The only respita during that period was the time spent on the Galapagos Islands, Mujer where the climate is ideal. Douglas deartibed the islands as an earthly lise, exigit for the lack of water. Charles Island is the only one on whic. fred water can be obtained; and there they saw cattle and the remains of a flourishing
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a tremendous fuss over their visitors,
landing them with garlands, and all | 3 day loug the St. George was crowd- ed with the natives.
1 is the most remarkable and lonely island in the whole of the Pacific Gudded Major Douglas). The natives are much more pure hlooded than the other islands, and are worth protecting. The French could do a great dent. more for them. They are the pure | Polynesiau stock, and the most pri
mitive people of the lot.
Easter Island wne the next visit. ed, and here the famous stone images were inspected, but no further light would be thrown on the mystery of The their origin and purpose." climate is cold; the sky grey, and the whole surroundings, said Majer Douglas, had a most end and de- pressing effect. Such natives as
xist are under South American in-12 fluence. They are half Chilean. It is a dangerous const for vessels, and the St. George bad to pay to sw and romain there for three days with the Obilean Governor and a Scotch settler du bourd, oil account of the bad weather. The voyage from Easter Island to Panama was tellious in the extreme, owing to head- winds and calms; and although it had been estimated that the journey from Tahiti to Parama would occupy Bighty days, the St. George, did not arrive there until the 103rd day. Consequently, their supplies were completely exhausted by the time o their arrival.. Ultimately a tag had to be summoned to tow, the St.
them. 31. jungle is full of insect by Nature, which makes them very life of every description, and it is lazy. They are always langbing hoped that the entomological collec-and jead a happy careless life. Hon will prove qually valuable. They are still ages at heart. The results have been so pood that! Futuhiva Island, in the same the members of our Advisory Coun.group, Wine also visited. The party be for the last fifty-two miles feil have delard But, even if no put in at Hon Repose Bay, where to Pain, where they arrived on farther work had been done, the is situated the Valley of Oomoa, June 30, expenditure of the mony has been which proved to be a place of won- Tully justified.
derful benty The ground was There are no large animals on the tirpeted with white Crinum fties. island, but suks abund, and the The natives are much more primi visit was not without some exciting five bay at Hiva On, but were just incidents. One night Miss Cynthia hospitable and pleased to see
Her first customers were, kat Longfield, a'am-feur entomologist, them. While fishing on the fulanud, who was a passenger our board the Major Douglas was washed off the yong me who left thair cycles in St. George, was making an explora- rocks and nearly drowned, but her charge while they explored the tion in the hinge in the company managed to catch hold of a pro- neighbourhood. For each cycle she of Mr. Collinett the fetaljerting ledge, and although cut and them a ticket with a number. entomologist, when they were exhausted, drew himself out of it.
Late at night the tourists return caught severe thunderstorm.duasper. One night the whale-boat,
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from them, and they heard its his cupsized in the heavy surf, and.
A country woman once went into the business of providing teas for
elikis.
tion on her free.
A vivid flash of lighting, revealed in which wem the captain, the. The woman had them to their
large heronstrictor winding | Goverer of the Marquesas, threeveles with a smile of self-satisfac itself up a tree a few leht away alive ladies, others,
You know which is which,"
fastened duplicate tickets on them.
They gratefully thanked her, and when they found their cycles they discovered that the tickets were
in the darkness, It is a typical several of the party were injured.old them, hecus I've jungle (Major Douglas explained) The native ladies, however, being Freeking with dump and possessing accustomed to such incidents,
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hit the s carry your life in your hande when Proceeding to Bahiti, the St. you enter it. While at Gorgona George entered Papecto Harbour,etly pianed into the back tyres Dr. Fenny, the loto of the ex- an entirely modern port, where the pedition, was bra the leg by peoply use highly civilised and hei a crocodile whi,,wimming in one of acquired many modern vices. Many the streams, it funately the Europeans and Americans are tal animal was not less turge for him ing up land there, and Major Because early in life they to despatel it with a benvy stone. Douglas has himself acquired "a kambol, they are always on the They had an exciting time fishing small property; to which he intends turf, the best of them are black- at night. in consy with the no-to return and explore the other legs, and they are regularly lives, and the fish, which were islands," The whole of the 'trade of fleeced on every year."
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