Notes From My South Sea Log
Notes From My South Sea Log
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A great dome of fire, blood-red, bursts upwards on the eastern sea-rim, and the island day has come.
Then singly, and in two and threes, the men and boys of the village, clad only in their many- hued girdles of grass, sally forth to the beach for their morning bathe.
As they pass the trader's house, the white man, too, comes out in his pyjamas to smoke his early pipe and drink his cofi^ee.
A big, tawny-skinned native waves his hand to 184 THE PALA 185 him as he passes and calls out the morning'...s greeting in bastard Samoan.
" Wilt come with us to-day in thy whaleboat, friend ? We go to catch pala after the first service is finished. " The white man nods assent.
" Aye, Kino, I shall come. 'Tis like to be a fair day for pala. " tI? * ^^ 'f* "^ The island of Nanomaga is one of the Ellice Group, lying 600 miles north-west of Samoa. It is the smallest of the seven, has no lagoon, and is less than four miles in circumference. Yet although it is merely an upheaved sandbank densely covered with coconut trees, with a few banyan trees, and produces no vegetable except a coarse variety of the taro called puraka, it supports a population of nearly 500 people.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A great dome of fire, blood-red, bursts upwards on the eastern sea-rim, and the island day has come.
Then singly, and in two and threes, the men and boys of the village, clad only in their many- hued girdles of grass, sally forth to the beach for their morning bathe.
As they pass the trader's house, the white man, too, comes out in his pyjamas to smoke his early pipe and drink his cofi^ee.
A big, tawny-skinned native waves his hand to 184 THE PALA 185 him as he passes and calls out the morning'...s greeting in bastard Samoan.
" Wilt come with us to-day in thy whaleboat, friend ? We go to catch pala after the first service is finished. " The white man nods assent.
" Aye, Kino, I shall come. 'Tis like to be a fair day for pala. " tI? * ^^ 'f* "^ The island of Nanomaga is one of the Ellice Group, lying 600 miles north-west of Samoa. It is the smallest of the seven, has no lagoon, and is less than four miles in circumference. Yet although it is merely an upheaved sandbank densely covered with coconut trees, with a few banyan trees, and produces no vegetable except a coarse variety of the taro called puraka, it supports a population of nearly 500 people.
What to read after Notes From My South Sea Log?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Louis Becke And Walter Jeffery to read onlineMoreLess
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