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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a pretty girl of eighteen or twenty who was crunch-ing live shrimps, or letting them wriggle down her throat as readilyas she would swallow so many sugar-plums. Some European residents have acquired the taste for raw fish,and they say it is delicious. We have not ventured upon it, thoughwe take clams and oysters raw according to the practice of our owncountry. The tropical bivalves are not so good as those of temper-ate regions, and I believe this is the general testimony of travellers. The market is well supplied with chickens, turkeys, pigeons, and MAKKET SCENES IN TAHITI. 95 ducks, which are nearly always sold alive, as the heat of the climateprevents their being kept more than a few hours after slaughterino-.Pigs are sold alive, and they are carried about suspended by their hind-legs from a pole. It is painful to hear them squeal, and there ought tobe a Tahitian branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty toAnimals to put a stop to this barbarity. ^>-^.^ ^^fi&.lM^^i
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GATHERING ORANGES FOR THE FEAST. Most of the market-people were natives, but I observed a goodmany Chinese there, especially in the section devoted to vegetablesand fruits. These people take very naturally to vegetable gardens,and their patient industry is well rewarded by the fertile soil of Ta-hiti. On reaching the hotel, our friends found an invitation to a feastwhich one of the merchants was to give the next day at his countryresidence, in native style. They immediately sent acceptances, andwere ready at the time appointed for the carriage which was providedby their thoughtful host. When we reached the house, said Fred, each of us was pro- 96 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA, vided with a new bathing-dress and towels, and proceeded to the riverclose by, where numbers of guests were already enjoying a bath in theclear water. The party straggled back in twos and threes ; and as fastas we returned every one of us was crowned with a wreath of flowersafter the Tahitian custom. There w

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