. Western Comrade . these Marquesan peo-ple with whom I lived five months, andfrom whose islands, seven degrees be-low the equator—toward New Zealand—I have returned unwillingly to civiliza-tion. They dont have to work. Theirfood hangs on trees right over theirheads. They eat breadfruit and cocoa-nuts and bananas and oranges, vi apples, mangos, pis-tachio nuts, papayas, alligator pears, rose apples, taro,feis, watercress and fish, shrimp, lobsters, crabs andpigs, goats and beef. They dont do a stroke. There is not a tilledfield in the eight Marquesas islands, nor a wagon, nor a wheelbarrow. Ev
. Western Comrade . these Marquesan peo-ple with whom I lived five months, andfrom whose islands, seven degrees be-low the equator—toward New Zealand—I have returned unwillingly to civiliza-tion. They dont have to work. Theirfood hangs on trees right over theirheads. They eat breadfruit and cocoa-nuts and bananas and oranges, vi apples, mangos, pis-tachio nuts, papayas, alligator pears, rose apples, taro,feis, watercress and fish, shrimp, lobsters, crabs andpigs, goats and beef. They dont do a stroke. There is not a tilledfield in the eight Marquesas islands, nor a wagon, nor a wheelbarrow. Every man andevery woman hasland, and thecrops grow with-out cultivation. Inever saw a hoenor a plow. If a Marquesanwants breadfruithe yanks it off thetrees, and so withcocoanuts, mangosand all the otherscore of fruits,nuts and trees are prac-tically in common;the Marquesans to-day are a brother-hood. If they hun-ger for fish orsport, a group ofneighbors, menand women, takethe canoes fromthe beach and. A Marquesan Chief With BeautifullyTattooed Legs spoar or snare the honito, albicore, ray and a hundredother kinds of fish that seem just crazy to get the hook. I have been with parties that caught a ton in anights lull. If they want a haunch of goat, a sideof beef, or a ham from a boar, they mount their and ride to the hills, where the animals arealways to be found. No. They wont work. It makes the white tradersfurious. If those bastards would plant cocoanuts andmake copra wed all be rich in a few years, said anAmerican trader to me. Gott in Himmel! I haf dried und dried to per-svade die natives to vork und dey laugh und say nix,said a German trader with tears in his eyes. They dont need the money. Thats it. They allhelp one another building a house or in anything use-ful. Their cocoanuts they sell to the traders and gettobacco and cloth and other things they like. They wear flowers in their hair every day; menand women alike. Nature gave them one of th
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