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James Norman Hall. Mid-Pacific
Mid-Pacific
Table of Contents
I. OCCUPATION: JOURNALIST
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II. ONE KIND OF JOURNEY
III. K.F.I—LOS ANGELES
IV. INDIAN COUNTRY
V. A HAPPY HEDONIST
VI. PRAIRIE WINTER
VII. UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
VIII. GLAMOROUS PLACES
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IX. LEVITICUS REDIVIVUS
X. SOME ISLAND GRANDMOTHERS
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XI. A PERSON FROM PORLOCK
XII. SETTLING DOWN IN POLYNESIA
XIII. TAHITI’S COCONUT-RADIO SERVICE
XIV. PUBLIC BENCHES AND PUBLIC BENCHING
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James Norman Hall
Published by Good Press, 2021
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‘Of course! You wish for your sleep. Well, to-morrow evening we will go. Now you retire to your bed.’
But I was not really sleepy, so I said I would wait until he had finished his work. It was interesting to watch the crowd of natives pressing eagerly forward for supplies. Case after case of bully beef was disposed of. The mere sight of those familiar tins with their familiar labels, ‘Hellaby’s Corned Beef,’ ‘Armour & Company,’ etc., made me feel squeamish at the stomach. It brought back the very feel of the war, and a vivid recollection of the rending roar of nine-inch shells, the smell of lyddite, gas, decaying human flesh. I remembered the peculiar odor of trenches and damp dugouts filled with unwashed men. No ex-soldier, surely, can ever again look with complacency at a tin of beef.
