Identifier: easternpacificla00chri (find matches)
Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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mangos and roseapples, bananas and custard apples, Kehika orMalay apples, and many another strange fruit neveryet found in Devon orchards, hang ripening in thesunlight, waiting only for a stretched hand to pluckthem. For our potatoes they have the yam, thetaro, and the Kumaa or JJmaa (Maori Kumar a)—which the European calls a sweet potato, but isreally a convolvulus (in Malay the Ubi-Jawa, orYam of Java). Butchers bills never fall due in this happy land.Goats and wild cattle roam the hills, pigs run bothwild and tame in the valley. Doves, green andgrey, are plentiful amongst the banyan trees in theupper clefts of the dale. There are fowls enoughof a kind, with queer ragged plumage, for everclucking around after coconut shavings, and whenall these are not to hand, baked dog is always obtain-able at the shortest notice. The sea, moreover,is generally a safe draw, and when fish are wantedthe sportsmen with rod and net rarely have a blankday out. The dried and salted flesh of the squid
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PUAMAU NATIVE IN DANCING-DRESS,with tippet and anklets of human hair. The Three Highways of Hiva-Oa 125 (Hee) and of the porpoise (Paaoa) is a good stand-byfor those who like strong-flavoured dishes, andthe flying-fish (Maoo) and the bonito (Atu) recallto a European the pilchard of Cornwall and themackerel of the Riviera. The women and childrenalways manage to pick up plenty of shellfish andsea-eggs (Vatuke, Hetuke), a large brown blunt-spined echinoderm, on the rocks at low tide, thelatter a most delicate and savoury dish; I haveoften eaten them in Tahiti and in Samoa. But,curiously enough, upon Ponape, in the Eastern Caro-lines, they are strictly tabooed as food. In Rarotongathey use the big blunt spines for slate pencils. Can our boasted civilization with all its harsh,competition and horrible grinding poverty attendant,with its Mammon-worship, with its dull material-ism, and its growing spirit of carping irreverence,give the people of this vale of Arcady anythingbetter than their

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