Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific

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Felix Speiser. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific

Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific

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Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific

Introduction

Geography

Climate

Flora and Fauna

Native Population

Language

Colonization

Commerce

Chapter I

Nouméa and Port Vila

Chapter II

Maei, Tongoa, Epi and Malekula

Chapter III

The Segond Channel—life on a Plantation

Chapter IV

Recruiting for Natives

Chapter V

Vao

Chapter VI

Port Olry and a “Sing-Sing”

Chapter VII

Santo

Chapter VIII

Santo (continued)—Pygmies

Chapter IX

Santo (continued)—Pigs

Chapter X

Climbing Santo Peak

Chapter XI

Ambrym

Chapter XII

Pentecoste

Chapter XIII

Aoba

Chapter XIV

Loloway—Malo—The Banks Islands

Chapter XV

Tanna

Chapter XVI

The Santa Cruz Islands

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Felix Speiser

Published by Good Press, 2019

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About ten years after the French, the English began planting, and to-day nearly all arable land along the coast is cultivated. The English suffer much less from lack of labour, which is doubtless owing to their more humane and just treatment of the hands. In the first place, they usually come from better stock than the French, and, secondly, they are strictly controlled by the Government, whereas the French Government does not even attempt to enforce its own laws.

There is now some question of importing Indian coolies; the great expense this would entail would be a just punishment for the short-sighted cruelty with which the most valuable product of the islands—their population—has been destroyed. Only by compelling each native to work for a definite period could a sufficient amount of labour be produced to-day; but such a system, while extremely beneficial to the race as a whole, stands but a poor chance of being introduced.

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