Stevensons Germany the Case Against Germany in the Pacific
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Education is bringing them into ever closer relations with their white brethren, and the wonderful progress of New Zealand is as much an asset for them as for the rest of the population. But New Zealand has always been a centre of interest for Samoa and the Samoans. Sir Julius Vogel in his grandiloquent way said : " It is remarkable how the prevailing winds make New Zealand and the islands mutually accessible. They proclaim New Zealand as the natural headquarters of Polynesia. " Steam, no doubt..., has altered all that ; but the natives of Samoa do not forget that their canoes, built on the island of Savaii, at one time had a great reputation among the Maoris, and that indeed the very name " Savaii " is full of romance. It indicates in itself a Polynesian dispersion from Samoa, and a probable peopling of New Zealand and Hawaii from the group which Germany was able at last to appropriate. This is only mentioned to show how eagerly news from New Zealand was looked for, and how the sense of a common origin 136 STEVENSON'S GERMANY moved the Samoans to think along similar lines, though with a certain condescension.
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