Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . MAORI GREETING. MAORIS DANCING THE HAKA HAKA NEW ZEALAND 183 nightly on the ocean Hners. If one of the vocahsts suffersfrom sea-sickness in the middle of a chorus, he rushes out ondeck, flies to the side of the ship and returns to join in thepopular Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, which is a song Ithink every New Zealander knows. POLYNESIAN PASTIMES CRICKET is as popular in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga asit was in pre-war days in Australia and England. Inthose paradises of p
Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . MAORI GREETING. MAORIS DANCING THE HAKA HAKA NEW ZEALAND 183 nightly on the ocean Hners. If one of the vocahsts suffersfrom sea-sickness in the middle of a chorus, he rushes out ondeck, flies to the side of the ship and returns to join in thepopular Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, which is a song Ithink every New Zealander knows. POLYNESIAN PASTIMES CRICKET is as popular in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga asit was in pre-war days in Australia and England. Inthose paradises of peace and plenty, where the actualnecessaries of life (anyway, enough to satisfy the averagenative) are obtainable without the smallest amount of labor,there is ample time for indulgence in the pastime. So in manyplaces they play cricket every day, and, inasmuch as practicemakes perfect, are skilful with bat and ball. Cricket is else-where a summer game, but it being practically perpetual sum-mer in the tropics, is played there all the year round. There are several European clubs in Fiji, at Suva andLevuka, and in connection with the several
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