. 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. lfa dozen others to throwtheir spears at him in rapidsuccession. By a dexter-ous handling of his club heturns the spears aside, butit is evident that the slight-est mistake may have se-rious consequences. When we came backto the landing-place wethought we would take aride in a native boat in-stead of calling away theboat of the yacht. So wehired a
. 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. lfa dozen others to throwtheir spears at him in rapidsuccession. By a dexter-ous handling of his club heturns the spears aside, butit is evident that the slight-est mistake may have se-rious consequences. When we came backto the landing-place wethought we would take aride in a native boat in-stead of calling away theboat of the yacht. So wehired an outrigger canoe,and were quickly paddledto the side of the boats are not byany means new to us, aswe have seen them in Cey-lon, the Malay Archipela-go, and other parts of theworld. The Samoans han^die them with a great dealof skill, and I do not won-der that Bougainville recog-nized their ability by call-ing this group the Navi- Islands. I forgot to say, added Frank, that we saw several cases of ele-phantiasis, which the natives call fe-fe, and is said to be quite commonin all the islands of the group. The arms and legs of the victims areswollen to a great size, but, happily for them, the disease is not attended. 136 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. with pain. The cause of fe-fe is as unknown as is that of goitre inSwitzerland. Apia is on the north side of Upoki Island, which is the most impor-tant and the most populous of the group. It has an area of about threehundred and thirty-five square miles, and a population of not far fromfifteen thousand, or more than one-third the entire number of inhabi-tants of Samoa. In the middle of the island is a chain of broken hillssloping towards the sea, and these hills up to their very tops are greenwith verdure. The harbor of Apia is sheltered by a natural break-water ; but, though the principal seat of commerce, it is not consideredas fine as that of Pango-Pango, on Tutuila Island, whither our friendsproc
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