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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University
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eral of them tothe position of chiefs. But the fellows quarrelled with the natives andamong themselves, and when Commodore Wilkes touched at the Fee-jees, in 1840, only two of them were alive. These wandering or stationary vagabonds are the men who are 126 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. called beach-combers in the parlance of the South Pacific. They arenot fond of law and order, and whenever an island group goes underthe control of any European power the beach-combers are very likelyto leave and take up their abode on islands where the natives are stillindependent. When the French occupied Tahiti many beach-combersthere fled to Feejee, and when Feejee became an English colony theydeparted for Samoa. Samoa is still under the rule of its own kings, orrather under their misrule, but the probabilities are that it will soon bein the hands of the Germans. When this happens you may expect anemigration of beach-combers to the islands, if any remain, where therewill be no legal restraints.
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asss ears, FLORIDA ISLAND. The stories of many of these fellows is full of the most starthngIncidents, even after making a very liberal deduction for what theirimaginations have added to the facts as they occurred. One of themtells how, when he landed in Feejee, he was condemned to be baked andserved up at a feast; the oven was being heated for his reception whenthe chief concluded to keep his prize a while longer until he could befattened. The man was released, but he ate sparingly of the food thatwas given him, and at the same time ingratiated himself with thenatives, particularly with the chief, by showing him how to make warsuccessfully upon his enemies. The result was he was saved from bak-ing, became a man of importance, had fifty wives, and a goodly numberof slaves. Another beach-comber named Charley Savage became a man ofgreat importance, and received the honors that were given to the mostexalted chiefs. He assisted his tribe in making war, and was nearly al-ways successful. O
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