Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . ^ task, and the tide rose so quicklythat I soon found myself surrounded by deep water and indanger of being submerged, till one of the men good-naturedlycarried me back to safe quarters. It was most interesting towatch the quick and easy way they possessed themselves ofthe fish. They stood motionless as statues, gazing down intothe water, then suddenly the spear flew and a fish was a hand was plunged into the water and a fish grasped andbrought up. And such fish! They did not seem real. Therewas every imaginable shape and every c
Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . ^ task, and the tide rose so quicklythat I soon found myself surrounded by deep water and indanger of being submerged, till one of the men good-naturedlycarried me back to safe quarters. It was most interesting towatch the quick and easy way they possessed themselves ofthe fish. They stood motionless as statues, gazing down intothe water, then suddenly the spear flew and a fish was a hand was plunged into the water and a fish grasped andbrought up. And such fish! They did not seem real. Therewas every imaginable shape and every colour of the rainbow,like those we saw in the Honolulu aquarium. The men were. 20 Islands Far Away. pleased with our interest, and kindly gave us a bunch to takehome and eat. I tried painting some of them but the exqui-site brilliancy soon faded from them, when lifeless and exposedto the air. ^ -x;;^
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