The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-06
STEVENSON IN SAMOA.
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long as he lived they maintained fierce
front, and raided the inhabited lowlands:
but as soon as he was shot down, IN the
act of carrying off the maid of a village.
the survivors shrank into the forest.
There, in the rains. in the rude thickets.
they await age and death. Stress of hun
ger occasionally goads them from their
woods 10 steal bananas; in all else, since
the death of the Gilbert Islander, they are
quite harmless, but the fear of them is not
the least abated.
Long ago, say the natives, the houses
were continuous round the harhor They
are now shrunk into five hamlets; at night
it is only here and there that light
twink.es, IN the morning only here and
there that the smoke OF cooking drifts and
diSperses in the forest. \ path girdies the
whole shore, rude enough causeway
which falls if you sit upon its margin,
bat makes passage easy. The near hill
climbs abruptly, making profile of leaves
upon the sky. The path, as it follows on
10y prOmOntOry and recess, now plunges
Won in breathless heat now brings Won
forth in L broad draught of air. From
the hottest corner of some patch of cane
YOU may look little way up the hill and
see palms whirling in the breeze; from the
bottom OF some cave. where the path is
overhung with rocks and foliage, YOU NAV
! look but little forth and see the bushes
toss and the lianas stream on the next
cape. \ FAINT stir Of human life animates
the solitude. Far out on the manv-tinted
shoals women wade and fish, and YOU NAV
hear them singing at their occupation; or
one strolis Observation-Disclosures waiting,
modelled IN her dripping kilt. and as YOU
pass along the CauSeWay halls YOU with
saiutaton and hiSh-pltched laugh. Per-
haVs canoe goes by, or two or three
brand new whaieboatS spread their lint
white sails II a race Or perhaps Won en-
aFar. no rs -,
ing food, baskets of taro, cooked pig trICed
by the feet to a pole and carried on the
shoulders of two men. as the spies car
riei the grapes of Palestine Or vet
again you may he accompanied in your
I walk BY bronze young gentlemen, equipped
with bow and arrow 10 chase fish. The
sport Is pleasing ana humane; the little
hunters patte- on the margin Of the beach,
stand ARA gaze on outlying rocks or wade
| in the bright shadows; the innocuous ar
! row is NJ times discharged and recovered.
/ and she ssh sCorp 10 withdraw. For in
TINS method of chase the situation is re-
vcr>el. ana the hunter has the exercise
! the quarry the sport. Pango-Pango Is not
popular with gentlemen Of the American
navy. They say II Is hot, fcverlSh. and
/ all. lie days weigh upon them In this
/ mountain anchorage; they prefer even
/ Ap.a, ami are said - anguish for the lows
/ ~ poker | may be morose. perhaps ef-
{ ~ ''"t NN'." WAN "a itAet4ilic on
/ these shores, and II must Condescend TO
/ any pasuue. let me rather pursue nsh and
recover boobies arrows
! The turn OF the land from Swimming
/ point 20 Observatory point Is To contain
| the American establishments The path
/ runs under the trees ana rocks. hard by
! toe water; YOU may undress and batne IN
the shade OF the same tree and play with
tie ll8Has IS you battle. the c6ves seem
| private a. chamber. the heat of the after
! noon Is leryent. the air still. An isle.
| Noai island, where the stars and stripes
! we're hrSt displayed. stands detached from
| Observatory Point, commands the harbor
| NJ and down. has look 10 seward. and
enjoys the breeze all day. You Chamber