A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . SAMARAI YULE ISLAND TO SAMARAI 227 piercing yells rend the air as it meets the ground with abump. When once stationary, it is pounced upon andcarried in driblets up the pier, and passed by the Customsofficers. The aforesaid wretched sheep are also landed,and thrown down in the broiling sun with their feet tiedtogether. I think I was nearer becoming a vegetarian atthis time than at any other period of my life. Samarai, the trading centre of the Territory, is an islandset like an emerald in the China Strait. It is not backedby such magnificent scene
A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . SAMARAI YULE ISLAND TO SAMARAI 227 piercing yells rend the air as it meets the ground with abump. When once stationary, it is pounced upon andcarried in driblets up the pier, and passed by the Customsofficers. The aforesaid wretched sheep are also landed,and thrown down in the broiling sun with their feet tiedtogether. I think I was nearer becoming a vegetarian atthis time than at any other period of my life. Samarai, the trading centre of the Territory, is an islandset like an emerald in the China Strait. It is not backedby such magnificent scenery as is the capital; neverthelessit has a fascination all its own. Port Moresby and Samaraiare the only two places in Papua that by a stretch of imagin-ation could be called towns, but as the first boasts awhite population of only 150 and the latter 120, I think theterm far too grandiose for either at present. To what theymay develop is difficult to predict: Samarai certainly cannever become great, as the whole island is only fifty-eightacre
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