Outing . e wind blows into this bay; at nightthe breeze from the mountains above blowsout of it. Around the bay is a ribbon ofcoral sand glistening white in the sun-light, the palmsgrowing to itsvery edgeand overhang-ing the tempera-ture of the la-goon is seventyto eighty, theair from seven-ty to eighty-five. Here andthere is a canoehollowed out ofa single tree-trunk with anoutrigger ofhibiscus woodmaking it asstiff as ahouse. Is itnot joy enoughto lazearound dressedin a pareu, inand out ofthe warm seawater, or pad-dling a canoeabout the tur-quoise or emer-ald lagoon?The water is asc
Outing . e wind blows into this bay; at nightthe breeze from the mountains above blowsout of it. Around the bay is a ribbon ofcoral sand glistening white in the sun-light, the palmsgrowing to itsvery edgeand overhang-ing the tempera-ture of the la-goon is seventyto eighty, theair from seven-ty to eighty-five. Here andthere is a canoehollowed out ofa single tree-trunk with anoutrigger ofhibiscus woodmaking it asstiff as ahouse. Is itnot joy enoughto lazearound dressedin a pareu, inand out ofthe warm seawater, or pad-dling a canoeabout the tur-quoise or emer-ald lagoon?The water is asclear as glassand below youare the won-ri. derful gardens of many coloredcoral, with their lawns of sea anemonesalive with fish, the roi, the paaehere, theiihi—perfectly impossible fishes, brightblue, gold, red, white with black bars—one vast aquarium. But if one is really strenuous there isplenty to do. If fishing in the lagoonor the countless mountain brooks istoo tame, one can go beyond the reef and. 422 The Outing Magazine catch tuna or albi-core, or shoot thegreat sharks withtheir dorsal finssticking out of thewater. The valleysare alive with wildchickens, or thestrenuous one mayclimb the moun-tains and shoot (at)wild goats, cheeringhimself with thetoast: Heres tothe mountain goatwho drinks of themorning dew; hejumps from jag to jag—do you? Perhapsthe best sport of allis to go into the bushwith a few nativelads and their dogsafter wild pig. Thegreat savage boars,bay by the dogs, arefrom your gun or aintrepid Kanaka. Eirere. tracked and held atdispatched by a shotspear thrust from ant is probable that all these wild things,chickens, goats andboars are descendedfrom domestic onesthat generations agoheard the Call ofthe Wild and re-sponded, but youcant tell the differ-ence now and thewoods are full ofthem. There is a goodroad all the wayaround the island,except in one placewhere it is necessaryto skirt off intothe bay to pass awall of the lagoon,half a m
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