. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . By fhf c^urUsy of Mr. J. y. Lister. GIRL WEARING A SISl AND BOARSTUSK TAHITI GIRLS. 6d WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS The soil consists of sand and gravel,washed up by the waves. Coco-nuts andfish are the main resources of the population,but on some islets there are no coco-nuts,and only the Pandanus grows. Here aresome of the rudest and most savage people ofthe Pacific, and probably nowhere in theworld are women more brutally work from morning to night to providefood for the men,
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . By fhf c^urUsy of Mr. J. y. Lister. GIRL WEARING A SISl AND BOARSTUSK TAHITI GIRLS. 6d WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS The soil consists of sand and gravel,washed up by the waves. Coco-nuts andfish are the main resources of the population,but on some islets there are no coco-nuts,and only the Pandanus grows. Here aresome of the rudest and most savage people ofthe Pacific, and probably nowhere in theworld are women more brutally work from morning to night to providefood for the men, spending all the time ontheir knees, pounding Pandanus nuts, oron the sharp coral, collecting shell-fish andsea-eggs. Polygynv obtains to an unlimitedextent; any man of the community mightput away one wife and take another atpleasure, and without ceremony. CaptainBeechey noted that the offspring of theseunions seemed to be the only objects of themens affection—certainly they had nonefor their wives. The women were belowthe common standard of height, and de-ficient in personal attractions. Tyrannisedover, debased, over-worked, neglected, andstrangers to social affection, n
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