New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-21

they were found, three hundre,
years ago, by adventuring bands o.
traders and discoveries. That the,
are still very far off the regular
routes is attested by the fact tina,
it was twelve months after his ar
rival at the Atuona Valley, on the
Island of Hiva-Oa, before another
steamer arrived to take him back
again to Tahiti, his starting point.
Remote though the people were
! from the seat of their ancestry,
O'Brien discovered monuments, GUS
toms, hieroglyphics, craven images,
legends and languages bearing testi-
mony of the migration perhaps 100,-
600 years before. But he discov-
cred other things, too, which are
Of almost equal interest and which
he has described in his book, "White
Shadows in the South Seas"
Among the Marquesans he found
that it is the woman who Is agrees
sive in wooing and not the man.
These Amazons of the Pacific, many
of them having red hair and won
derful features, made raids upon the
"sterner sex" for husbands, and on
three occasions O'Brien found to his
embarrassment that every year is
Leap Year in the Marquesas Islands.
Wife Objected
A native who, in spirit Of graft
tude for favors done, offered to give
his wife to the white traveller was
severely pummeled by his mate, not
because she was shocked by the
character Of the suggested arrange
ment, but because he had sought to
usurp a prerogative she considered
exclusively hers.
O'Brien also came into contact
with one ex-cannibal who admitted
without any signs Of conjunction
that he had eaten one hundred human
beings, but as against this he also
encountered Mile. NJ, the richest
woman among the Marquesans,
whom he described in this way:
"She wore a black lace gown.
clinging and becoming her slender
figure and delicately charming face.
Her features were exquisite, her
eyes lustrous black pools Of passion,
her mouth a scarlet line Of pride
and disdain. A large leghorn hat of
fine black straw, with chiffon, was
on her graceful head and her tiny
feet were in silk stockings and pat
ent leather. She held q .old and
ivory prayer book in gloved hands
and a jeweled watch hung upon her
breast.
Couldn't Marry a Native
"She might have passed for a
Creole or for one Of those beautiful
Filipino mestizas, daughters of
Spanish fathers and Filipino moth
ers. I suppose coquetry in woman
was born with the fig leaf. This
dainty, fetching heiress, born Of a
French father and savage mother.
had all the graces of a ballroom
BELLE"
II want to be loved" this extraor-
binary creature told Mr.. O'Brien
one day on the edge Of precipice
where they had gone to watch the
sun set. Money! have it. Z
don't want it, want q man. 7
cannot marry a native, for they do
not think as do"
Coming up q trail a few DAYS
later the traveller met a shabbily
dressed white man, with dirty gray
beard and harsh voice, who, after
fife Of piracy, robbery and lawless-
ness, had settled in the jungles.
"You be careful" this uninvitine
derelict told O'Brien, after having
seen him with Mile. N. Zone time
I baked bread in Taaoa. My oven
was near the plantation. saw that
girl come into the woods and take
off her dress She had mirror to
sec her back, and I hooked, and the
sun shone bright.
what she saw I saw-a patch Of