Identifier: easternpacificla00chri (find matches)
Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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espect to both strangers andresidents, and not over hard on the natives either.But, on the other hand, there have been some casesof hardship. In a good many instances chiefs ofhigh family have been deposed on one pretext oranother, and men of low origin put into their place.Many of the ancient tribal observances based on theTapu or Taboo system, that wonderful and effectivesafeguard to life and property among Polynesianraces, have been derided and cast into oblivion.The time-honoured profession of tattooing is pro-hibited under penalty of fine and imprisonment,which seems a harsh measure. The French gen-darmes, however, to do them justice, take greatpains to put down the drinking of coconut toddyand fiery imported rum, which has reached alarmingproportions amongst these luckless islanders, whohave likewise acquired a taste for opium, a gooddeal of which somehow gets smuggled in every year,mainly, however, by small Chinese traders. The remedy for this is drastic and lies in four words,
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ANCIENT STATUE OF KING TAKA-II, PUAMAU VALLEY, HIVA-OA I. Height about 8 feet. The Three Highways of Hiva-Oa 123 confiscation, arbitration, compensation, deportation.In plain English, seize and sell up the offendersproperty at public auction, at three months notice.Pay proceeds of sale, minus ten per cent, fines, tothe owners, give them fifty dollars consolationmoney each, and pack them back home to China. Far up the valley, near the residence of the localqueen, is an old sacred enclosure like the cannibalhigh-place described by Stevenson in Hatiheu, amost interesting relic of a grey antiquity, withinwhich, surrounded by a dense copse of coffee shrubs,planted of late years by Kekela, stand two giantstone figures, the statues ol Taka-Ii and his wifeFau-Poe, a monarch of might, a grim warrior indays of yore, when the Pahatai, People of theBeach/ were a powerful clan, about the time ofthe great migration from Hiva-Oa to Tahuata Islandby the sons of Nuku, some forty generations ago.To thi

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