From Darkness to Light in Polynesia With Illustrative Clan Songs
From Darkness to Light in Polynesia With Illustrative Clan Songs
William Wyatt Gill
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A few minutes' walk along a narrow hill-ridge through the crisp fern which we crunched under our feet, brought us to a cohical eminence, up which we climbed. On either side was a deep valley with precipitous sides. It might be just possible for a barefooted native to get down alive by holding on to the tufts of fern and branches of trees which here and there shoot out of the clayey soil. A false step, or the snapping of a bough, would precipitate him to the bottom — a depth of some six hundred ...feet. ' Down there,' said my guide, ' rolled poor Vivi.' We rested a few minutes in the shade of some graceful ironwobd trees {Casuarina equisetifolia)^ the wiry leaves of which closely resemble the stems of fine grass. In the distance was the blue ocean, scarcely distinguishable from the azure sky. Nearer rose that impregnable rocky defence against the violence of old Digitized by VjOOQIC Il6 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT ocean which encircles the island, and is itself covered with dense forest. Between it and where we sat it was pleasant to trace out the hills and valleys of Veitatei.
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