Savage Island An Account of a Sojourn in Niu And Tonga
Savage Island An Account of a Sojourn in Niu And Tonga
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The oldest natives, when asked for an ex- planation of the name " NiueY' shake their heads, and suggest that their ancestors, driven seaward from another island, and giving them- selves up for lost, saw palms upon the island, and hailed them with the cry " Niu e" !" ("Palms ahoy ! ") ; but that may be classed with a host of other native derivations of place-names, equally i ingenious and equally improbable.
In the crowd at Alofi I noticed two distinct types of physiognomy, the one with wavy Pol...y- nesian hair and the large features of the Cook Islanders, and the other with lank, coarse hair THE ABORIGINAL RACE 89 and the Malayan features and rather oblique eyes of the Micronesians. These latter were comparatively rare not more than ten per cent. The exact origin of the people, now that the old men are fast dying off, can never be ascer- tained ; but a clue may be found in the people of Avatele, the village at the south-west corner of the island. Even now they show traces of a distinct physical type, and in the last generation the short and thick-set frame, the large mouth and thick lips were very marked.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The oldest natives, when asked for an ex- planation of the name " NiueY' shake their heads, and suggest that their ancestors, driven seaward from another island, and giving them- selves up for lost, saw palms upon the island, and hailed them with the cry " Niu e" !" ("Palms ahoy ! ") ; but that may be classed with a host of other native derivations of place-names, equally i ingenious and equally improbable.
In the crowd at Alofi I noticed two distinct types of physiognomy, the one with wavy Pol...y- nesian hair and the large features of the Cook Islanders, and the other with lank, coarse hair THE ABORIGINAL RACE 89 and the Malayan features and rather oblique eyes of the Micronesians. These latter were comparatively rare not more than ten per cent. The exact origin of the people, now that the old men are fast dying off, can never be ascer- tained ; but a clue may be found in the people of Avatele, the village at the south-west corner of the island. Even now they show traces of a distinct physical type, and in the last generation the short and thick-set frame, the large mouth and thick lips were very marked.
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