Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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?i>\ » ^^^ •■* ^ ^ 2 h) s 5 cl y , UNPOPULARITY OF LABOR-SAVING MACHINERY. 15 uneducated palate, and is nauseating to the novice. Natives greatlyprefer it in this form, and a good many foreigners cultivate their tasteuntil they too would rather have their poi sour than fresh. Soon after the islands were settled by foreigners an ingeniousYankee saw a chance for making money by importing machinery formaking poi, in place of the old form of hand-crushing. Now there arefactories in various parts of the island where poi is made in large quan-tities, chiefly for the use of planters and other large consumers. Itforms quite an article of export to other islands where Polynesianlabor is employed, and especially to the guano islands, where nothingcan be cultivated. A former king of Hawaii established a poi factoryat Honolulu, and by so doing became very unpopular with his subjects,just as has been the case with other kings who have introduced labor-saving machinery into their dominions.
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HAWAIIANS AT A FEAST. At dinner that evening Frank and Fred asked for poi and werepromptly supplied. It was explained to them that the native way ofeating it was to insert the forefinger in the dish, twirl it around until 16 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASLA.. it was well coated with the sticky substance, and then draw the fingerthrough the mouth. Both the youths concluded that they would allowthe natives to monopolize that form of eating, which was hardly to bereconciled with civilized customs. They contented themselves withspoons, which answered their purpose completely. Poi, fish, and pork are the prin-cipal articles of food among theHawaiians; but at a feast severalarticles are added that do not comeinto the daily bill of fare. Theguide took Frank and Fred to anative luau^ or festival, and pointedout the following dishes: poi, fishand pork, as already mentioned;baked ti-root, which bore a strikingresemblance to molasses - cake, ofwhich New Englanders are fond,and the resemblance i

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