The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-10
A TRIP TO THE
SOUTH SEA
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after cantor whore the shade is
dense, your companion describes and
explains with her riding crop the IN.
torostng bits of scenery encountered
ON the way
This house ON the left belongs to
the family of Herr who, I'm CON
nection with his position on one of
the plantations ordered am unfortunate
Chinese laborer TO be nogged for a pet
ty offence to which he pleaded limo
conce, and as a result DC was after
wards waylaid by the confoderates Of
the unhappy victim and in turn beaten
so severely that he had never been
able TO recover.
There were many instances Of Sc
! we're cruelty IL was said. by some Of
the overseers of the plantation in the
way of logging, and this was one of
them.
The house on the right, which you
are now approaching, is owned by the
admirable and respected Herr,
manager Of the leading firm whose
marriage to a Scotch lassie some
years ago was quite romantic The
little golden haired child in the yard
| playing with his Samoan nurse is
theirs and they have just returned
from a trip around the world.
The large comfortable looking house
yonder, set rather back from the road
in the midst of spacious grounds, and
more pretentious than any OF its neigh
bors, is the home Of the missionary
Mr. -- and his wife who are great
social leaders, and whose tennis teas
have become the occasion for the rem
devious Of Apia society.
Under great matched shed is a
monster double canoe which is suffi-
GENTLY unusual to cause halt in your
progress for a closer inspection of the
marvellous relic of antiquity.
This canoe, your companion tells
you, was made at the command of one
of the earliest chiefs that ever existed,
and was constructed with many 9th
ers for the purpose of conquest of Fiji
and the neighboring islands Of Polyne-
STA. 1t is about one hundred feet in
length and is made of two outrigger
canoes hewed out of the bodies of
great ironwood trees, and connected
by platform the parts of which are
dashed together by sinit, or woven CO.
coanut fibre, where the warriors sat
headed by their tapo (the most chaste
and beautiful girl Of the village elect
ed to lead her tribe in time of war;
to lead them into battle, while one
hundred men in each canoe alongside
padded the monster craft to the slow
ominous strains of a barbaric chant,
which was droned in a monotone.
This war canoe relic of the distant
ages, and one of the greatest of re-
naming curios of the present day is
lying in waiting for the warship Of the
Kaiser which is on it's way you are
told to convey 1t to the Fatherland for
all time.
Cutting up from the main road at
| length, you enter a dense wild grove,
which you are told is Short cut" up
through the bush or forest to your des-
tinauon The roads are becoming al
most unbearably warm from the pow
erful morning sun, and the dense cool
ness is refreshing and inviting. The
passing rigs, and the groups of Sa-
means, always occasioning cordial
| greetings, have been left behind and
now your companions admonitions
called back over her shoulder fall
strangely loud in this vale of silence,
as your pony picks his way along here
and there, trampling the underground
OF clinging vines, which for lack of a
weeks intrusion have swept over the
footpath, and implicitly following the
| flank of the horse in the lead. In
| quiries as to your progress and well
fare, and return assurances Of your
safety and comfort besides the crack
ling of dead leaves beneath your
horses hoofs, are the only semblance
of the presence of any living thing in
these solitudes. The air is damp and
sweet with fragrant troDic growth
and flowers and here and there golden
and purple and pure white butterflies
hover about, darting by and almost
brushing their powdered wings against
your face as they nee from the noisy
intrusion, while in the halts you occa-
sionally make the heart of the vague
silence is stirred by the soft wall Of
wild doves with which these forests
| TEEN.
A mile perhaps of this brings you
both at length into the open, If any
part of the prolific tropical wooded
wilds of Samoa can be so called, and