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doctor will come, an then you got to
CO. | said. you better get ou~ Pm
goin' away, anyhow | said I was
figuring on my accounts, an l didn't
want to be bothered with no fool kid.
"Well, he hung around awhile, maxim
a fuss, till | opened the door an told
him to git. Then he went quiet enough.
He went right down the beach into
the water an swum away back to the
settlement.
"Now look here, that kid liked me.
He knowed me we'll, too-he was around
my store pretty near all the time
was in Penryn. He was a fool kid
My Dog, that was the name he give
himself. An while I was In T'yti,
here L get letter from the trader
that took over my store, and he sent
me a letter from that kid 1t vas
wrote in Kanaka He couldn't write
much, but little Here, III show you
the letter. You'll see what that kid
thought of me-"
In the light from the open cabin
window I read the letter, painfully
written on cheap, blue-lined paper.
"Greetings to you, McIlcnry, in Ia
hlti, from Your Dog. 1t is hard to live
without you. 1t is long since I have
seen you. 1t Is hard. l go to join my
father. give myself to the mako To
you, McHenry, from Your Dog, greet
ings and farewell"
Across the bottom Of tho letter was
written in English "The kid dis
appeared from the Yeper settlement
They think he drowned himself"
For many days the ship sailed on:
CTRAIGHT across the channel we
~ stcctcd for Hama Hcvane. little
bay and valley guarded by sunken
coral rocks, over which the water
foamcd in white warning Two Of the
men leaped out into tho waves and
hunted on these rocks for squids, while
We beached the boat on shore un-
inhabited by any living creature but
rats, lizards and centipedcs.
Several small octopi were soon
brought In, and one OF the men placed
them on soms powders whore the tids
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Catholic church at Atuona

I lately, and l led them, laughing nerv-
ously, but not joyously The son of
Ugh! stopped first.
"Ta! Ta. Ia! Tai" he cried "Are
we afraid of that ugly beast? | have
killed many. Pakekal We will eat
him, tool"
He turned with the others and ad-
vanced toward the feke, shouting
scornful names at him, threatening
him with death and being eaten, warn
ing him that the sooner he gave up
the quicker ended his agony. But the
dcvilhsh was not afraid. His courage
shamed mine. | was behind the bar
ricr of the boatsmen, but once in the
throcs Of the fight Shiny arm passed
between two of them and wound itself
around my leg. screamed out, for it
was icy cold and sent sickening
weakness all through me, so that |
could not have swum a dozen feet with
1T upon NE. One of the natives cut it
oN, and still it clung to my bloodless
skin until | plucked it away.
The son of Ugh. had two of the
great arms about him at one time, but
his companions hacked at them until
he was free. Then, regardless of the
struggles of the manned devil, they
closed in on him and stabbed his head
and body until he died. During these
last moments l was amazed and sick
ened to hear the octopus growing and
moaning in its fury and suffering. His
voice had a curious timbre. | once
heard a man dying of hydrophobia
mako such sounds, half animal, half
human.
"The feke would have killed and
eaten any one Of u.s." said the SON of
Ugh! "Not many are so big as he,
but here in Hama Hevane, where seldom
any one tished, they are the biggest in
the world. They lie in these holes in
the rocks and catch fish and crabs as
they swim by. My cousin was taken
by ono while fishing, and was dragged
down into the hidden cavervs. He was
last seen standing on a Ledge. and the
next day his bones were fonnd picked
clean. A shark is easier to fipht than
such II devil who has so manv nrms."
The bontsmen gathered up the rem
nnnts OF tho foe and brought them to
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Thinking Headaches

Never were people less able 70 corl~
prehend the creeds and formulas in
which the religious beliefs Of the white
men are clothed. Marquesans are not
deep thinkers. In fact, they have q
word, tahoa, which means, "a headache
from thinking" Ten years OF ardent
and nobly self-sacriicing work by
missionaries left the islands still with
out single soul converted. II was not
until the chiefs began to set the sea.
of their approval on the new outsndish
faiths that the people focked to the
standard Of the cross. And when ihey
did begin to mediate the doctrines
preached to them as necessary beliefs
in order to win salvation, their heads
ached indeed
Even after years of faithful church
going many of my friends still strug-
gled with their doubts. and when these
wrinkle my own brow and ponder
deeply.
The burning question as to the color
of Adam and Eve had long been
settled. Adam and Eve were brown.
like themselves. But if, as thu priests
said was most probable, Adam and EFe
had received pardon and were n
heaven, why had their guilt stained all
mankind?
Also, would Satan have been able TO
tempt Eve if God had not made the
tree of knowledge tapu? Was not
knowledge Il good thing VIA. motive
had led the Maker and Knowor OF ali
things to do this deed?
What made the angels fall2 Pride,
said the priests. Then how did it get
into heaven? demanded the perplexed-
The resurrection Of the body at the
last Judgment Mortified them. This
fact, said the husband OF Kake. had ed
to the abandonment Of the old manner
OF burylng corpses in sitting posture
with the face between the knees and
the hands under the thighs. the whoie
bound round with cords Obviously
man buried IN such Il position woH'"
rise deformed. Their dead IN the
cemetery on the heights slept now III
long collins Of wood, their limbs al
ease. But other and less premeditated
interments still befell the unwafy
islander.
What would God do IN eases where
sharks had eaten a Marquesang And
what. when the same shark had been
Killed and eaten by other MarquesanS
And in the case of the early Christian
forefathers. who were eaten by men OF
other tribes, and afterward the cann'-
balls eaten in retaliation. and then the
last feaster eaten by sharksl Auss
There WAS . headache qucryi
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The Battle

They swan around and around the
mountainous pair, darting in and out.
evidently with some plan of drawing
off the male. Both the whales struck
out necessarily with their mammoth
aukes; their great tails, crashing upon
the sea surface, lashed it to mountains
of foam. Our boats tossed as in a
gale.
Carried away by the pity and terror
of the scene, we shouted threats and
curses at the monsters, calling down
on them in Marquesan the wrath of
the sea gods. Frenzcdly handling till
cr and sails, we circled the battle,
lmpotent to aid the poor woman beast
and her baby. The sharks hnrricd
them as hounds fox Desperately
the parents fought, more than one
shark sank wounded to the depths and
one, turning its white belly to the
sun, fioatcd dead upon the waves. An
other was flung high in air by a blow
of the mothers tail But it WIS an
uneven contest. At last we saw the
nursing drawn from her breast, and
the mother herself sank. still strug-
CLING. She may have risen, of course,
far away, but she seemed disabled.
We did not wait about that bloody
spot WHOM the sharks AaA fallen upon
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w here the
Days Stand
Still, and the
Nights Are
Very. Rich in
no m a ce

obediently. Baufre sat on a chair :,
the vestibule and added accounts
All Kee Au was the sole commnn,-
cant at the rail. No cloth was spread
hut the bell announced the mystery -
transsubstantiation, and all bowed their
heads while All Kee Au reverently Of
fered his communion to the welfare "A
Napoleon, his grandson, who had acc-
dentally shot himself.
The service over, the people poured
from the church into the brilliant SIM
shine Of the road, and All Kea Au ss;a
to me, "You savee thlat commun;o,
blead b'long my place. My son make.
for pliest." Lam Kai 90, pressing for.
ward, offered the communicate
draught of fiery rum he had obtained
by the governors permission. He had
been told that to give glass of water
to a communicant, who must of course
have tasted and ahstained from ANY
liquid since midnight, according to the
law Of the Church, was a holy act
which brought the giver blessing. and
SO the subtle Chinese thought to make
his blessing greater by Offering drink
better than water
All Kee Au drank with fervor. aNv
makee holee thliss morn" he said
gladly. "Makee Napoleon more happy"
Sincerity is not matter OF broken
English or drink of rum; the poor old
grandfather of the little coroorals
namesake believed earnestly that
Napoleon would improve by mis- sacra.
mental Offering. He, like most Mar
quesans, took the white mans religion
with little understanding. II is new
magic to them, a comfort an occupa-
ton, and an entertainment But who
knows the human heart, or understands
the soul?
The afternoon while Neo and 7 Law
on my paepse, awaiting the favorng
wind which should carry him back to
his own isle, my neighbors gathered
from far and near to lounge the sunny
hours away in conversation. Squatted
On the mats, they engaged in serious
discussion Of the puzzles of religion.
appealing to me often to settle vexine
questions which they had long wearied
Of asking their better Informed in
structors in religious mysteries
Their native tongue has no word for
religion. Bishop Dordillon had been
obliged to translate it, "Te mea e
hakatika me te mea hama mea koaha
toitoi tie Etua," which might be
rendered, Belief in the works and love
Of just God" Etua, often spelled
Atua, was the name of divinity among
all Maori peoples, bet religion was so
associated with natural things. the
phenomena of nature, of living things
and of the heavens and sea. that it was
part of daily life and needed no word
to distinguish it,
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the beach, where the elder Ugh was
tending the fire. Grabs were broiling
upon it, and the pieces of the feke
were flung beside them and the smaller
octopi.
When they were cooked, a trough
OF popoi and one of feikai, or roasted
breadfrut mixed with a cocoanut-milk
sauce, were placed on the sand, and all
sGuatted to dine. For a quarter of an
hour the only sounds were the plup of
fingers withdrawn from mouths filled
with popoi, and the faint creaming of
waves on the beach. Marquesans feel
that eating is serious business. The
devlItish and crabs were the delcacies,
and served as dessert Backened by
the fire, squid and crustaccan were
eaten without condiment, the tentacles
being devoured as one eats celery.
The writer describes a vivid drama
in which the characters were whales
and sharks
M T. mad gone one morning about the
w southern cape, and were harpoon-
ing swordtish and the gigantic sun
fish when q commotion thousand feet
away brought shouts of warming from
my companions. We saw two whales,
one with a baby at her breast The
other we took to be the father whale
Huge black beasts they were. Upon
this mated pair a band of sharks had
flung themselves to seize the infant
There were at least twenty-five
sharks in the mad mob, great white
monsters thirty feet in length, man
eaters by bloodtaste, tigers in dis
position. Though they could not com
pare with their in size or power,
they had heads large as rels
and mouths that would drag a man
through their terrible gaps. That their
hunger was past all bounds was evil
dent, for the whale is not often at
tackled by such inferior sized fish.
Storms had ragged on the sea for days
and maybe had cheated the sharks of
their usual food.
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their prey, for our canoe was low in
the water, and with such a sight to
warn US, we did not doubt that the
loathly monsters would attack US.
The narrative is peppered with
valuable observations in the realm
of ethics and morals. Here, for in
stance, is an interesting bit:
HAVE had my trousers lifted from
L my second-story room in Manila
hotel by the eyed and fingered bamboo
of the Tagalog ladron. while | washed
my face, and stood aghast at the nvs-
terry Of their disappearance with door
locked, until looking from my windows
| beheld them moving rapidly down an
estero in a banca. | have given over
my watch to a gendarme in Cairo to
forfend arrest for having beaten an
Arab who tripped me to pick my pocket,
and | have surrendered to the rapac-
lty of majo general Informed Of
me for not having tail-light lit. In
San Francisco, when robbed upon the
public street, I have listened while
the police suggested that offer a fee
to the king of the dips" and reward
to certain saloonkeepers to intercede
with the unknown tome highwaymen
for the return of an heirloom
Yet, through the darkest nights in
Nait-hua l slept serenely, surrounded
by all the possessions so desirable in
the eyes of my neighbors, in a house
the doors Of which were never fast
ened. There was not a lock in all
the village, or anything that answered
the purpose of one. The people of this
isolated valley, forgetting their. brief
encounter with the European idea of
money and of the accumulation of
property, had reverted to the ways
Of their fathers.
And we are taken to church.
not native affair, but real Cath
clio church, holding it's own in the
midst Of pagan jungle:
ENE church was painted white inside,
Il with frescoes and dadoes of gaudy
hues and windows Of brilliantly colored
glass. The altar, rs also the statues
of Joseph and Mary, had reredos
handsomely carved. Outside the rail-
ing was a charming Child in the
Mangcr, lying on real straw, surround
ed by the Virgin, Joseph, the Magi, the
shepherds, and the kings, all in bright
hued robes, and pleasant-looking cows
and asses with red eyes and green
tails
The singing began before the priest
came from the sacrsty. The men sang
alone and the women followed, in an
alternating chant that ut times rose
into a wall and again had the nasal
sound of a bagpipe. The Catholic
chants sung thus in Marquesan took
on n wild, bnrbaric rhythm that thrilled
the blood and made the hair tingle on
the scalp.
Bishop David lc Cadre appeared in
elegant vcstments, his eyes grave above
foot-long beard, and the mass began.
The acolyte was very agile in short
red cassock, below which his naked
legs and bare feet showed The people
responded often through the mass, ris-
ing, sitting down, and kneslinS
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Then He Vent

"He made such a fuss, cryin' around
by God, l had to boot him out of
the place. I said: Get out. I don't
want you snivellin' around me- So he
went.
"lts a rotten, God-forsaken place,
guess I don't know The government
takes care of 'em. 1t ain't my affair
I guess for leper colony it amt 80
bad.
Anyway, ! was goin' to sell out an
leave Penryn. The diving season was
over One night had the door locked
an was goin' over my accounts to SEQ
II l couldn't collect some more dough
from the natives. | heard noise. and
by God, there comih' through the
window was My Dog. He como up to
me- and 1 said; Stand away, there!'
amt afraid Of leprosy, but there's no
use takin' chances. You never know.
SWELL sir, that kid threw himself
down on tho floor. and he said. Nc
Henry. knowed you was goin' away
and had to come to see you That's
what he said in his Kanaka lingo.
He was cryin' and he looked pretty
bad. He said he couldn't stand the
settlement He said, \ don't never
see you there. Can't / live here an
be Your Dog again.
II said, You got to 20 to the settle
ment.' I wasn't goin' to get into tron-
bic on account Of no Kanaka kid.
Now that kid had swum about five
miles in the night, with sharks all
around him-the very place where his
father had gone into shark. That
kid thought lot Of me. We'll, made
him 70 ,aok. II you don't 20, the
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

had left pools Of water, and cleaned
them of their poison. He rubbed them
on the stone exactly as a washerwoman
handles a flannel garment, and out of
them came lather as though he had
soaped them. Suds, bubbles, and froth
one would have said laundress had
been at work there. He dipped them
often in q pool of salt water, and not
until they woulc yield no more suds
did he give each a final rinsing and
throw it on the fire made on the beach
Suddenly a shout broke my absor2-
tion in this task The son of Ugh!
with the gold earrings, waving his
arms from amidst the surf on the reef,
called to me to come and see a big
feke. AS his companions were dancing
about and yelling madly, I left the
laundrying of the small sea devils and
splashed two hundred yards through
the lagoon to the scene Of excitement.
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The DeuiLGsh

Four of the crew had attacked a
giant devilfsh, which was hidden in
a cave in the rocks. From the gloom
it darted out its long arms and tried
to seize the strange creatures that
menaced 1t. The naked boatsmcn,
dancing just out of reach of the writh-
ing tentacles, struck at them with long
knives. AS thcy cut off pieces Of the
curling, groping gristlo, thought |
heard horrlnic groan from the cave,
almost like the voice of T. human in
agony. ! stayed SIX feet away, for |
had no knife and no relish for the
game.
Four Of the long arms had been
severed at the ends, when suddenly
the octopus came out of his den to
fight for his life. He was n reddish
purple globe Of horrd flesh. horned all
over, with n hend not unlike an ele-
plants. but with large, dcmoniacal
eyes, bitter, hating eyes that roved
from one TO another of u.s. rs if select
ing his prey Eight arms, some shorn
Of their suckers, stretched out ten
feet toward u.s.
The Marquesnns retreatod precipi-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-02

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