The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-07
INTERESTING TALK
BY PROF. NORTON
Fellow of the Royal Geographic
Society Delivers Address
at Y. NJ. c. A.
THE CIVILIZATION OF
0CEANA," HIS SUBJECT
Tells Auditors Much That Is In
Structiye About South Sea
islanders.

Prot, Walter Norton. +, L. q. s.. de-
]Vercd an interesting address on the SUBJ
3eot Of The Civilization OF oceana.' be-
tore the members and guests at tEo y.
NJ c. \. Sunday afternoon. beginning at
d;SO o'clock. The reading room was filled
To It's capacity long before the arrival
OF Prof, Norton. who said in part:
II cannot do better than To start you
on this journey from Salt Lake city.
thence TO san Francisco and take steamer
10 Hawaii. The journey by sea is seven
days. AS there arc regulations prevent
ing passengers from landing, unless one
can show that one intends 10 remain in
IN" islands Tor some time. We again
board tho steamer for another seven days.
at which time VIC shall hear the welcome
sounds % the natives of Samoa. 'Talofa,
1slofa. ringing out from the dozens OF
small craft which arc brought alongside
the vessel upon It's arrival in the harbor
Of APia within two or three yards OF the
beach, from where a clear view Of tho
whole of Samoa may he had
Z" Talof1.' Is native greeting OF well
come meaning. How are you?' Glad TO
see YOU, or words to that effect. In
Occana there arc more than 900 islands,
thirty-SN lakes, eighty eight mountains.
l0' rivers and creeks. and nearly 700
towns. oceana includes thc Hawaiian
Islands. from the tropic of Cancer TO
tile iropic OF Capricorn, % degrees north
and south. the line extending to New
Zealand about 80 degrees south, and In
cludcs tho PHILIPPINES, Borneo. Sunatrs
Java, fapua or New Guinea Solomon
islands. Australia Fiji. Samoa. Tas-
mania. New Zealand and the whole of
area. omittins Japan Australia and
Malaysia. is 3doO.0o0 square miles and
tho population is estimated at 100000
The people are bearded. energetic i'm
rusiVn and often fierce savages, and
here and there cannihallsm is met.
Ayersc to Work
In Samoa. the natives are ironically
ayerse 10 labor. They occasionally viii
dry "A Ettlc coprl and place II on the
vessel in the harbor. and when impor-
tuned by ;hc minister at the church they
will commence work at sunrise and bring
IN co,ni from the sea, carrying IT. In bss-
lets and dumping il into a hole for the
ings.
''Apia. The capital was the first place
OF call for the John Williams, th"
missionaries have done a large amount
OF good work. nearly all the religions
being represented on the islands. | at
tended sunday school at .tpia on one oc-
caslon and was deeply interested. The
boys were seated on one side OF the
church while the girls sat on the other
side The pastor. or reader, In front
Was correcting errors of the scholars
thcn would come loud laugh from the
girls when one OF the boys had mispro-
ncunced q. word. and the same laugh
NonIu nGcak out among the boys when
the girls made mistake. The penalty
for the boy or girl making the error was
10 go TO tho front OF the church and kiss
The knob of the baluslrade of the pulpit
stairs. Some idea OF the average tenn
p"raturc may bc had when | tell YOU
that We had 10 lay the butter on our
bread With i spoon most of the time.
The hurricane seasons are November
and April. and in 1850 the hurricane al
most DESTROYED Apia. March ID. 1889
ihGa American sunboats. Trenton. Van
dslia. the German warships, Alder and
EDor We're DESTROYED bV one of these
terrible onslauShis OF the wind and FOR
many years after I saw the wreckage
strcwn on the beach everywhere,
In Stevenson S House.
Robert Louis Stevenson died at his
residence, Failirna. which Is three miles
inland from Apia, in 1S9j. and shortly
after his. death | was again on the island
= resided in the house that he built had
manr forty winks' In the arm chair that
inc died in. smoked many Of the cigar
three cows that hc had left at pasture
climbed the trees on his estate and gath
cred quantities of rich and rare passion
fruit and wild hibiscus. / whitewaShcd
his grave. which is upon the top Of a
mountain close by his house and / es-
coricd many visitors TO the grave in the
months that ] resided there ! lived in
truly native fashion just as Roher, Louis
stevenson would have had me do
Prof. Norton then took up a number
ot either islands, telling of many inter-
cstiDS features met with in no other
part of the world. He said that the time
VIII most assuredly come when all OF that
country Will be inhabited by people now
fact that changing climates would force
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