Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-02
trsaipEs ISLANDERS.

sEsRipEs ISLANDERS. X <o.;s.3rcn of Polynesia Always
 Seem So Happy.
 s~ auce over a good map of the
 am south of the equator, ii
 so vou like a white paper
 h spscks like pepper. These
 present islands or groups o1
 Ike Hawaii, the Navigator's
 ,e Friendly islands, Fiji, and
 ukl q vast number of groups,
 which the men who compile 2 es take no note of. One class
 islands is very low, and is
 the coral insect, which turns
 stone when it dies; and the
 ss Is oalled volcanic, " and is
 v the internal fires of the
 ading their great ehimneys
 waves. As a consequence,
 acific Islands of volcanic origin
 tainous, and you can tell the
 at made them as soon as you
 W Hebrides group extends for
 ldred miles southwest of the eS ,orthern New Guinea, and as p. 1 forms show, it is of volcanic ' here are great many islands .a sroup. the most important of
 Errurnanga. This island is
 rIv famous because it was here
 great and good man, the Rev i. hn Williams, was killed by the ' zho1n he had come out to help.
 er way this island is famed for K flor sandal wood, a timber of
 h should know something, for
 atiful. pleasantly scented, and : ularly prized by that skillful : interesting people, the Jap
 habitants of the New Hebrides
 re almost as dark as the negro. i. tall, very we'll formed, and
 their habits and traditions those of the African tribes he Indian ocean, and further ss,s thAm than even America.
 men and women wear ear It's, and the holes in the ears, antly inserting larger pieces, 5 SO long that they hang down shoulder iu loops of dark flesh t is not pleasant to look st. lso puncture holes in their and fill them with disks of shell
 but when these things drop shey Often do, the food exudes their cheeks in B most dis le way. Why, they even bore a the nose, and hang therein f shell and bits of colored stone. his any worse than eramping
 in tight shoes, as we do, or raining the waist in devices stays till the natural form is cd and the health ruined? We see ourselves as others see us, we are, before we fatter our hat we are so very much supe- even the savages of the New as islands.
 Fly the women in savage lands z much inferior to the men in Sis Is because they have to do haFd work, and the lazy men, wiaea they go off to fight, which only serious occupation, have 2 to do but eat, drink, and scold ives. The women Of the New ss Islands are an exception to ?. They are beautifully formed, men help them in their work at them as equals and not as I the largest and most populous group of islands is called Vate = aced "Yatey"-and this l had | asnre of visiting in 1898. The were uo doubt very fierce and 1 9 visitors a few years ago. but think was because they were f them. Now they are as gentle das those most amiable savages world, the people of the Navi- islands, or Samoa" as we now m
 ae week l lived with the people sleeping in their conieal roofed q eating of their food, and living as they did themselves, and aned to like me the better for only English word they know orlginally Spanish worlds and all money, whether a 2 2 gold coin, is to them dollar. bound along the coasts of these and the pearl fisheries are valu- he shores are lined with rich nd through every month in the slopes of the hills are covered Hers. When the children learned as fond of shells and flowers. it d them beyond measure. and me friends at once. With them quantity rather than quality, little hut was soon packed with s Flowers and its earthen floor Nith the loveliest of shells.
 the New Hebrides men, to use ression of an American presi- re now at peace with all the nd the rest of mankind" " vet Te to carry their long, cruel With tips of sharks teeth. and urdefous war clubs, and the mlniature articles of the same r Tor toys. Here, as all the yer the girls are very fond of na they carry them on their g their mothers do their ehil- Fly all the islands of Polynesia 5 Is a very common custom, baking figures on the skin by T eoloring matter introduced 2 but the people of the New sSlands have another form of 'ey consider decoration. By sharp shells, they make scars ns figures on the face alone