. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . e dis-advantages of isola-tion, which retardprogress in othergroups, and contactwith neighbouringpeoples has pre-vented fine harboursand safety of naviga-tion in the shelteredwaters developed themigratory impulse, leading to that wideningof ideas which is essential to social the Samoans now confine theirvoyaging within their own group, the num-ber of colonies claiming Samoan descentwhich sprinkle the Pacific shows that thiswas not always the case, and tales recount
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . e dis-advantages of isola-tion, which retardprogress in othergroups, and contactwith neighbouringpeoples has pre-vented fine harboursand safety of naviga-tion in the shelteredwaters developed themigratory impulse, leading to that wideningof ideas which is essential to social the Samoans now confine theirvoyaging within their own group, the num-ber of colonies claiming Samoan descentwhich sprinkle the Pacific shows that thiswas not always the case, and tales recountintercommunication with Tonga and Fiji. Astrong government had established law andorder long before the coming of the whites,as is shown by the homogeneity of customand language throughout the group, and thepunctilious attention to etiquette and cere-mony are characteristic of a high grade ofculture. In habits of cleanliness and decencythe Samoans are more advanced than themost fastidious of civilised nations. Theirpubhc meetings and discussions are carriedon with a dignity and forbearance which. A TONGAN y^v the MOTHER Europeans never equal, and even in theheat of war they have shown themselvesamenable to the influence of reason andreligion. Tonga does not possess all the naturaladvantages of Samoa ; it lacks the fine harbours, and it issurrounded bydangerous reefs, butthis has not dauntedthe development ofa fine race of boat-builders and climate also isless healthy, and theland is in parts abso-lutely barren, as theresult of recent lavaflows. But the in-habitants have anadvantage over theSamoans in anotherdirection, for theyappear to be a moremixed people, and toblend the culture ofthe Polynesians withthe greater intelli-gence and vigour ofthe less attractivecharacter of theirhas probably been ait has had the twofoldresult of encouraging native energy, and ofdiscouraging too great an intrusion ofwhites, and the Tongans surpass all theother South Se
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