Come come a day
we come from.
White sand something washed by the blue waters of the Pacific the language warmth
of summer breezes perfume by flowers.
This is the South Sea is the last frontier of romance
and peace in a troubled world lies off the beaten track about Fianna Cravell
gateway to the South Seas is the heated better known than other islands in the
Polynesian group much has been written about this colorful outpost right here is
understood by the buttons of the world outside this is a piece of a better brand.
But it is still to Haiti. Even though some of it.
Younger women wear civilized clothes they want to be like white women
but they will always be taken.
These are subjects of his Britannic Majesty they are Nori one of the most
intelligent native races of the empire.
South Island home of the all race consists of the carious crust of safety about us
up to any an inferno evidence by Burning Springs the whole district is famous for
its geysers and super heated pool
and the native women take advantage of them by cooking much of their food in
specially enabling banks.
Simple yet there is no evidence
that native so blessed by nature in other lands ever thought of this thoroughly
cooked potatoes ready for them they already dinner table.
When a native woman meets someone she loves this is the way to show
that they are out of gardening is a heritage of prehistoric ancestors
skills what carbon much of their work remains some carvings of just
our modernistic studios others show rare artistry.
Thanks
to little more than fifty years ago.
These were cannibalized inhabited by a savage people
and there are advantages today where it is still C.G.
Here in the interior of one of the larger islands these people perform the same
dances as did their ancestors centuries ago.
The Mickey Mickey dancers almost all Polynesians express emotion to rhythm with
graceful hand and head movement
and a never ending chant accompanied by the hollow sound of blog drums beaten with
the hand
it is difficult to believe that their ancestors were to die early explorers.
Certainly there is no suggestion here of a savage heritage Snow White deep in a
friendly smile. A typical sale of the video.
If the Big G. America stake in the South Seas attended here it they go to go to Mo.
It is a Naval Station one of many possible bases this mansion family
the home of Robert Louis Stevenson is used by the governor who was always the
commanding officer of the naval contingent in the islands not far from this spot as
the last resting place of Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his own epitaph this be the
verse you grave for me here.
He lies where we long to be home is the sailor home from the sea
and the hunter home from the.
Bread fruit trees and coconut farms are abundant on the island
and the port is easily which by the natives there will defy a white man to do
that abstaining food is so simple
a Samoans home is merely a circle of pillars and at
that group they all appear as type of Polynesians
and they have been the originators of that doing.
But the word
that there was Polynesian meaning to decorate the skin with dyes live
in Samoa is casual There are no scarcity a new dress is merely a problem of going
up
and cutting some grass then weaving in the
palm it can be used for hundreds of necessary things the top slivers in the dark a
light still but lighter than aluminum The Samoans is a master of the waving art
and its deft flying fingers quickly fashion whatever it is a need for his wife arms
out there it is ready
for its next catch of fate or the ceremonial that.
Typical about pollinators call the sea bass diva.
But there is one thing different about the Samoan festival of rhythm.
There is always a cheap gist of the dance on it in this way for her beauty
and popularity.
This is not the girl
that the years with the maids of honor.
No doubt about her a good you know people of the South Seas are superior to some oh
and
just up the northern coast of Australia.
There are lands of the South Seas rarely visited a people primitive
and hostile impenetrable jungles gigantic swamps good homes infested with flying
and some hordes of mosquitoes.
Small wonder that this is a land far beyond the brown tears of romance.
It is a strong child is a by its.
Infant mortality is tragically high in these primitive places to live it to become
immune to disease about to unveil it is built over the water
but one side touching the land.
So it cannot be surrounded by enemies from other villages.
Cannibalism
and so depleted the male population don't they generally falls the women greatly
outnumber the men.
So it is that a male infant receives all the care and good protection
that an agreement Savage can devise the village will need its men
women their life's work is to be a wife. One of several wives always.
They can propose marriage and if refused the man will be severely beaten.
Adornment of the skin. Takes the place of clothes.
Is one of likes of a neck effect the bells of a sulky.
Will take a bow and but that their head or ceremonial occasion.
And the skull of a bonnet is made of a bird of paradise bathers
and it represents a small fortune to the owner.
Then there's the worry a type of the stain the dormant
and that's a brutalized the ceremony now is a devil dance ordered by the son of the
witch doctor all powerful who was the entire village to superstition
and mumbo jumbo. Well a glorious maybe savage and even courageous
but they are devils in the witch doctors medicine.
The women are less credulous because it is a man's world care what difference with
a few more devils make the skin drums
begin to boom the dance begin
and it will go on for hours in the monotony the downs the brain individuality the
submerged movement Vanka is one.
There is no music
that deserves the word nothing of greater ability then play a tune with Jan.
The brutal rhythm of skin drums the governing of their league on the hard ground
where the light of the validation is as dense as the fading light of day in the
South Sea.