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The Call Of The South
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1
The duk duk dance of Melanesia is merely a blackmailing ceremony by the men to obtain food from the women and the uninitiated.
2
“Tahia” is a gambling game played with small round stones; it resembles our “knuckle-bones”.
3
Ridan the Devil: T. Fisher Unwin, London.
4
Wilkes was called “the cruel captain” by the Samoans on account of his iron discipline.
5
Strongs Island.
6
“Falat” is the natives’ name for the huge prisms of basalt with which the mysterious and Cyclopean walls, canals, vaults, and forts are constructed on the island of Ponapé.
7
The Samoans term all the natives of the Equatorial Islands “Tâfito”.
8
I was told that the poor children were led away as they thought to be given si mea ai vela—“something hot” (to eat).—[L.B.]
9
A heavy, pointed stick of hardwood, used for husking coconuts.
10
Anuda or Cherry Island is an outlier of the Santa Cruz Group, in the South Pacific. The natives are more of the Polynesian than the Melanesian type, and are a fine, stalwart race.
11
Tafitos—natives of the Pacific Equatorial Islands such as the Gilbert Group.
12
Miti-loa—“Long Dream “.
13
White men—foreigners.
14
The “covering” boat is that which stands by to open fire if the “landing” boat is attacked.
15
This was Monseigneur d’Anthipelles the head of the Marist Brothers in Oceania.
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