. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. but was more like a picnic than anything else we haveat home. In fact it was a good deal of a picnic, as each person whowas invited contributed something to the supply of eatables for the table,so that those who did not fancy the native dishes need not go hungry. A FA-SAMOA PAKTY. lil The picnic ground was just outside the town, on a pretty bit of
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. but was more like a picnic than anything else we haveat home. In fact it was a good deal of a picnic, as each person whowas invited contributed something to the supply of eatables for the table,so that those who did not fancy the native dishes need not go hungry. A FA-SAMOA PAKTY. lil The picnic ground was just outside the town, on a pretty bit oflawn shaded by grand old bread-fruit and cocoanut trees, and in theniidst of a grove of bananas, which extended on three sides of the lawnand served as a sort of hedge. Banana-leaves were spread thickly onthe grass, and on this lowly table the edible things were spread, andwhat do you suppose we had to eat ? We had sucking-pigs roasted very much as they are roasted athome, or folded in taro-leaves and baked in hot ashes; the steam fromthe green leaves cooks them thoroughly, so that the joints fall apart atthe merest touch of the knife, or a slight strain of the fingers. Theygave us pigeons cooked the same way, and I remark, Ijy-the-way, that. GATE NEAR THE PICNIC GROUND. there are pigeons in the Samoan Islands, and it is one of the native f)as-times to catch them. We had several kinds of scale-fish, some cookedand others raw, and we had crawfish and prawns and Samoan oysters;but Im bound to say I didnt think much of the oysters when I remem-bered those of my native land. They gave us a salad made of theyoung and tender shoots of the cocoa-tree, and very nice it was, and 142 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTKALASIA. everywhere we turned there were bananas, oranges, pineapples, andother tropical fruits. The dishes that most attracted our attention were the puddingsmade of bananas, bread-fruit, taro, and similar things. The consul toldus that each of the ingredients was beaten fine and b
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