Arizona republican., 1904-08-18
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
Fir. Chauncey Clark Talks Interest,"
 insly of His Summer Travels.

MT. and Mrs. Chauncey Clark of Peoria, Arizona, returned home q couple of days ago from a visit to the worlds fair, where they had very enjoyable time MT. Clark was in Phoenix yesterday and reluctantly sub mitted to an interview. for his travels are entirely for pleasure of himself and family and not that he may achieve notoriety in the columns of the news papers The interview was not con- corning the worlds fair. for numerous others have told of it's wonders and MT. Clark has even more interesting things to say of lands beyond the seas. his worlds fair visit being but the clos ing incident of a whole season devoted to travel The summer was spent in the south sea islands by MT. and Mrs. Clark. who returned a few weeks ago, stopping only a day or two at their home in th.s valley before going to St. Louis.
 But the trip of the present year, long and interesting as it was, will be mere incident compared to a journey which Mir and Mrs. Clark and MT. Clark's slater, Mrs. Speed of Memphis will enter next month. Hitherto they have been touring the world by continents but this time they expect to go clear around it and take their time in doing so. On September 10 they will sail from San Francisco for Hawaii. After about ten days spent in Honolulu they will continue across the Pacific to Ja- pan and China. They would willing ly omit these countries on account of unsettled conditions and because they have already visited them in time of peace but it cannot be done for their snip has to make these ports. From China they will probably go to the Philippines for a short time thence 10 ] Singapore up into Siam and from there to Burmah, the land of pretty women. | From Burmah they will go to India, which famous country they expect 70 ! do pretty. thoroughly, spending at least four months there. Leaving India they 1 will cross the Indian ocean, pass l through the Red sea and Suez canal | and then take an excursion up the | Nile, past the pyramids far into the wondrous land of the ancients. This | itinerary cannot be finished before | some time next spring and Mrs. Clark | and Mrs. Speed will spend next sum- mer touring Europe and the British | isles, while Mir. Clark returns to Amer | ica to look after his business interests ! Speaking of the trip of the present | summer, MT. Clark says himself and wife left San Francisco on February II for the South Sea islands. Tahiti
 was the principal objective point | though Samoa, the English islands and various other groups were also visited. Tahiti is about ten degrees south of the | equator and they spent the greater
 part of four months there. MT. Clark says the climate was rather an agree able surprise to him as he imagined
 it would be unbearably hot in the vii
 cinity of the equator. He says,
 though, that while on the water the
 temperature was neither ennervating
 nor uncomfortable as 1t is here in the
 summer time. On the land it is con-
 siderably warmer than on the water
 owing to the reflection of the heat from
 the ground. However, it is very
 equable and the people dress in fit
 manner to withstand it. Nearly
 everybody wears large straw sombrer-
 os, resembling Mexican mats in shane -
 thery in weight. The principal iniunc .
 ton is to keep the head covered and
 not expose the back of the neck as
 sunstroke is very frequent among those
 who are careless. The rest off the
 clothing is mostly theoretical. Among
 the natives the dress consists of a
 paraec, which is garment made ol
 proper fabric, that reaches from the
 Vicinity of the knees to the breast
 The natives cannot be persuaded to | wear shoes. The ultra fashionable Ia. dies of the cities, wear mother hub- Dards. Tahiti says MT. Clark. is cer-
 talnly a lazy mans paradise especiaily II he be a native. The natives owr
 the lands they live upon and have title
 to them. The island is under Fencl
 rule and there is no land tax. so tho
 lands cannot be taken for unpaid taxes
 The principal diet of the islands f;
 mangoes, breadfruit, cocoanuts. nina-
 apples and bananas. The native. wifi
 few trees of each sort in his front yard, his land safe from his creditors
 and his clothing but little more than q
 theory, he finds life one long sumne,
 dream. About the only meat eaten ir
 me islands is sucking pig. fattnneo
 on mangoes, and baked in the groun,
 or ashes. The serving of this singi,
 meat dish' he says, has been reduced
 to really fine art.
 under such conditions there is ut-
 terl y lacking that spirit of competitio,
 ana grab, that marks the civiIizef
 races or the world. Instead of every. oouy one meets, reaching out eitha,
 actually or in some subtle manna,. atter the contents of ones pocket bool
 Aere IS a universal spirit of hospitaIit, and if one sees anything his hoo, 2 desires there are always those aroma whose pleasure it is to gratify hi, WiSheS A" r Hi'