The Diversions of a Prime Minister
The Diversions of a Prime Minister
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The first foreign arrival was of course the pig. It is a popular fallacy that Captain Cook, among his other benefi- Digitized by LjOOQ IC THINGS ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ZOOLOGICAL. 383 cent actions, introduced the pig into the islands of the Pacific. It would be questionable whether, if he had done so, he would have deserved the gratitude of posterity ; for the pig, in his rdle of univei*sal scavenger, adds to the insanitary state of the village when alive, and when dead disagrees with his owners. ...For he was never an article of common diet, being killed only on occasions of cere- mony, and then eaten to excess. So far from taking pigs to Tonga, Cook called there to obtain them in order to preserve his crew from the scourge that wrecked so many other expeditions, the scurvy. One hundred and thirty years before Cook's visit Tasman exchanged iron for pigs at Hihifo. But pigs had not then reached all the islands.
Penrhyn was without them ; and tradition tells of a time when even Fiji, so rich in all else, knew not the taste of pork.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The first foreign arrival was of course the pig. It is a popular fallacy that Captain Cook, among his other benefi- Digitized by LjOOQ IC THINGS ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ZOOLOGICAL. 383 cent actions, introduced the pig into the islands of the Pacific. It would be questionable whether, if he had done so, he would have deserved the gratitude of posterity ; for the pig, in his rdle of univei*sal scavenger, adds to the insanitary state of the village when alive, and when dead disagrees with his owners. ...For he was never an article of common diet, being killed only on occasions of cere- mony, and then eaten to excess. So far from taking pigs to Tonga, Cook called there to obtain them in order to preserve his crew from the scourge that wrecked so many other expeditions, the scurvy. One hundred and thirty years before Cook's visit Tasman exchanged iron for pigs at Hihifo. But pigs had not then reached all the islands.
Penrhyn was without them ; and tradition tells of a time when even Fiji, so rich in all else, knew not the taste of pork.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Basil Thomson to read onlineMoreLess
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