CHAPTER XIX
A short sketch of the missionary work in the South Seas—Concerning John Williams, James Chalmers, and others.
I can do no better than conclude this short sketch of the three most important groups of the South Sea islands by touching on the work and lives of those brave fellows the missionaries, who have left all the comforts of their English homes—their best friends and everything else that was dear to them—to teach the gospel of their Master and bring peace and happiness to these wild savages.
It is an easy thing to sneer at these “Gospel punchers” as they are so often called “out west.” But in spite of all the little things against them, one cannot help asking: Is it not through the work of the best of them that we are to-day able to go amongst these savages?
The most bigoted unbeliever if he thinks, and if he knows the sort of lives that many of these pioneers have led, must acknowledge their bravery, {194} even if he doubts their beneficial influence; but only the most ignorant could do that.
Mercenary reasons have always been assigned to account for the presence of the missionary in savage lands and all over the world, and particularly in New Zealand, one hears tales of the way the early missionaries piled up the gold. In Australia the same stories are told, but there was little in these savage South Sea islands to attract the seeker for gold at the time missionaries first began their work, for whatever they made would be at such a risk that it would not be worth their while.
In Australia and New Zealand, of course, there is a difference, in the latter place particularly, for there the Maoris were owners of large tracts of valuable land, and, undoubtedly, one or two of the lukewarm missionaries were tempted and fell.
One story I was told by an old Maori of a certain missionary is worth relating, as his acts rather upset the work of many honest men who were really trying to do good to these noble savages.
“Your clergyman be all right,” said the old man, when I mentioned missionary work. “He teach us about God, but He too greedy. He want all the Maori got.” {195}
“Nonsense,” I said; “who told you that yarn?”
A smile went round the little crowd as the old man glanced at his friends. “Mr. —— he told us to look to God and we looked, while we looked Mr. —— took our land. Then one day he come to us and he say, ‘God wants more land,’ and we gave him more land. Then some time soon he came again and he say, ‘God wants cattle to put on the land.’ And we give him cattle. Then he say, ‘God wants sheep.’ And we give him sheep. Then long time after he come again and he say, ‘God want money to keep the cattle and the sheep.’ But we had no money and so we had no more God.”
It is acts like these, committed by a few of the black sheep, that have made the bushmen, the cattlemen, and the traders sneer at the missionary, and in their ignorance they have condemned the whole for a part.
The trader and the kidnapper of the South Seas have for years fought tooth and nail against the missionaries, and it is they who have spread wild tales of the misconduct and strange practices of these noble men. They had an end in view, as they knew their worst foe was not the savage but the {196} missionary; it is the missionary who has been the means of stopping the ghastly trade in black men; it is the missionary again who has seen that the native was dealt with fairly; and these are the sins he has committed and can never be forgiven.
As early as 1796 the London Missionary Society, then the Missionary Society, undertook the work of sending men to these islands in the hope of winning their inhabitants to better lives. At that time the lives they were living were as bad, if not worse than those of savage beasts, and the publication of Captain Cook’s _Voyages_ in these islands aroused men of Christian feeling, and was the means of the Society sending out men to Tahiti; most of whom eventually died of sickness or were butchered by the natives.
For years these men and others worked their hardest against fearful odds, and for ten years they made little or no progress. Reports show that in 1813 one Tahitian had become a Christian. But this was the beginning, and during the next few years progress was as rapid as it had been slow before. Eventually the king of the island acknowledged the Christian belief, and set to work to destroy the heathen gods.
The adjacent islands were next approached, and {197} the Tahitian Missionary Society was formed with the avowed object of devoting all its energies to the conversion of the natives of these islands. Amongst its teachers the Society had a large body of natives, and it was not only assisted in this way but financially also by the very men who a few years before would have nothing to do with it.
Then came one of the greatest of the great men to these islands; John Williams, who was not only a splendid worker but a magnificent organiser. He soon had a boat fitted out in which he was able to visit the adjoining islands; finally confining his labours to New Guinea and the New Hebrides.
In 1823 Williams discovered Raratonga, an island in the Hervey group, and he seems to have devoted more of his time to the natives of this island than any other. It was his island, “dear Raratonga,” as he always called it. The population of it when he landed he estimated as about 7000, and in less than a dozen years he wrote of them in the following way:—
“I cannot forbear drawing a contrast between the state of the inhabitants when I first visited them, and now in 1834. In 1823 I found them all heathens, in 1834 they were all professing Christians. At the former period I found them with idols and {198} Maraes; these in 1834 were destroyed, and in their stead there were three spacious and substantial places of Christian worship, in which congregations amounting to 6000 persons assembled every Sabbath day. I found them without a written language, and left them reading in their own tongue the wonderful works of God.”
And again he said—
“In reference to the island generally, it may be observed that the blessings conveyed to them by Christianity have not been simply of a spiritual character, but that civilisation and commerce have invariably followed in her train.”
Succeeding this noble man in the islands were men of fine characters, the Revs. William Gill, E. W. Krause, and Messrs. Pitman and Buzacott, and then in 1867 came the man whose sterling good qualities will never be forgotten—James Chalmers, or “Tamate,” the name by which he was always known by the natives.
“Tamate” was bred and born in Scotland, and it was there he grew muscular and learned to love open-air life. Quite as a youth he became enthusiastic to devote his life to missionary work in savage lands; but subsequent events, and probably his companions, who were young men keen on {199} mischief and adventure, helped to make him forget his early aspirations. In fact, in that splendid biography of his written by Cuthbert Lennox, it is stated that young Chalmers’ religious ideas went through a period of uncertainty, and it was not until 1859, when he was eighteen years of age, that he had occasion to remember his early vow.
It was during a great religious revival, which was bringing in thousands of converts in Scotland, that Chalmers was persuaded to attend one of the meetings. This meeting he himself said that he and his friends had previously determined to do all in their power to upset. The result of it was that the true James Chalmers was roused, and from that hour he never wavered in his determination to teach the gospel to savages.
For years he worked steadily away at his studies, and in 1861 he was appointed to a position in the Glasgow City Mission. His good work brought him recognition, and finally he applied to the London Missionary Society for a position as missionary. The application was accepted, and Chalmers then went into training and was ordained as a missionary in 1865. He sailed almost immediately afterwards in the missionary boat _John Williams II._ for Raratonga island. {200}
Prior to leaving England James Chalmers married, and to his wife he gives the credit of half the successes of his life. The passage out to the South Seas was a terrible one, as the following extract shows:—
Whilst still in the English Channel the vessel encountered a terrific storm, memorable as being that in which the _London_ was lost. Three passengers were thrown out of their bunks, the pilot was knocked insensible, the compass binnacle was damaged, the whale-boat was carried away, and the seamen were constrained to ask the missionaries to pray for a change of wind. With difficulty the _John Williams II._ made the Portland Roads, and escaped the fate of some twenty-one vessels which foundered in the storm.
But this was only the beginning of the trials of that journey. Another storm met them in the Bay of Biscay, and a third one off the Cape of Good Hope, but they reached Adelaide eventually, and were there able to rest.
On the 21st of August the missionary ship which was to carry them to the islands left Sydney, and was in less than a fortnight high and dry on a reef, but she did not become a total wreck. She was taken back to Sydney for repair, leaving there again on the 15th of November, to become a total wreck on the 8th of January; her passengers were landed, minus all their belongings, on an almost unknown {201} and uninhabited island. The notorious _Bully Hayes_, however, rescued them from this spot and took them to Samoa. Eventually James Chalmers and his wife reached Raratonga safely after a voyage extending over seventeen months—the passage now takes about six weeks.
“Tamate’s” life in the South Seas was a life of sheer hard work, but he always felt, and properly so, that he was making headway. At the beginning of his career at Raratonga he set to work on the young men, as he thought in them lay the future hopes of the civilisation of the islands. When one knows the risks he ran in going back into the bush, where white men were so dreaded that they were often shot on sight, one cannot help feeling that a special providence was looking after him. He took no half measures and made few concessions, but went boldly to work at the start as he intended to go on to the end.
Many of the natives had been in the habit of fancying that the missionaries were weak men, but in “Tamate” they met one who was their equal in most things and could beat them at many.
As a sportsman and a man of pluck he immediately won their hearts, in fact every one who {202} came in contact with him speaks of him as a Man before all else.
One missionary said at the court in Sydney that, in his dealings with the natives, he remembered before all else that he was an Englishman, then a man, and lastly a missionary; but in “Tamate” every one recognised the Man.
From Raratonga Chalmers worked diligently amongst all the adjacent islands, and when later he had his yacht he was able to extend his operations and win many of the worst savages to better ways, and by joining in with the other missionaries some splendid work was accomplished. Throughout he saw the need of native teachers, and it was this branch of the work he set himself to push on, with the result that now there are native teachers and preachers in every island in the Pacific.
The chief trouble with which he and other missionaries had to contend was the climate; the unhealthy districts they had to visit often laid them up for weeks at a time. Finally Tamate’s wife, after a long and distracting illness, died and left him broken-hearted, for through all his difficulties she had been his mainstay. She died at sea on the 25th of October 1900. Her end was a very sad and disappointing one, as is shown by a letter Chalmers {203} wrote to one of his friends at the time. “We had dreamt of a little rest together in a cottage out of London somewhere, before we crossed the flood. We shall dream no more, she waits on the other side, as she said ‘I shall be waiting for you all.’”
It was not long she had to wait either, for on the 7th of April of the following year James Chalmers was massacred in the Aird River district, a part of the islands where he was not well known. The following account of the massacre was written by the Rev. A. E. Hunt, who accompanied His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony on a punitive expedition. “The _Niue_ (Chalmers’ yacht) anchored off Risk Point on the 7th of April, and a crowd of natives came off. As it was near sunset Tamate gave them some presents, and made signs that they were to go away and the next day he would visit them ashore. At daylight the next morning a great crowd of natives came off and crowded the vessel in every part. They refused to leave, and in order to induce them to do so Tamate gave Bob, the Captain, orders to give them presents. Still they refused, and then Tamate said he would go ashore with them, and he told Tomkins (his right-hand man) to remain on board. The latter declined and went ashore with Tamate, followed by {204} a large number of canoes. When they got ashore the whole party were massacred and their heads cut off. The boat was smashed up, and the clothing, etc., distributed. All the bodies were distributed and eaten.”
Chalmers evidently felt that his end was coming, though it cannot be supposed he knew how it would come. A few weeks before his death he wrote to a friend: “Time shortens, and I have much to do. How grand it would be to sit down in the midst of work and hear the Master say, ‘Your part is finished, Come.’”
Some time before Chalmers’ death Williams and many other missionaries were massacred; in fact it is in this way most of them have died, but their work will always remain as a memento. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, when bunching the good and bad missionaries together:
“With all their gross blots, with all their deficiency of candour, honour, and of common sense, the missionaries are the best and most useful whites in the Pacific.”
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INDEX
Administrator, an, 8
Adornments, trumpery, 172
Adventurers, 3, 15, 16
Agricultural pursuits, 23
Aird, river, 6
Ancestor warship, 153
Anchor, 66
Anchors, jamming of, 68
Ambryn, 147, 169
Americans, 12
Aoba, 78, 79, 81, 147, 180
Armlets, 42, 51
Arrowroot, 188
Arrows, the, 180
Attack, mode of, 99
Australasian Trading Company, 16
Australia, 11, 12 aboriginal of, 26
Australians, 7
Bamboo, 20
Bananas, 22, 24, 62, 187
Baskets, 176
Beck, Louis, 72
Betel-nut, chewing of, 111
Bibles, 14
“Blackbirding,” 190
Black labour, 10
Blackmailing, 50
Boat, the labour, 188 prow, 178
Bonita, call, 115 fishing, 113
Bougainville, de, 5, 9, 10, 11, 92, 133
Bow and arrow, 133
Bracelets, 157
Bread-fruit trees, 177
British Government, 7
British New Guinea, 6, 8, 26, 30 youth of, 38
British subjects, 12
Brown, Rev. Dr., 64
Buka, 10
Bundaberg, 188
Burial ceremony, 166
Burial ground of the traders, 79, 80
Burns Philp, Messrs, 16, 29, 72, 81, 186
Bush, men of the, 22, 32
Call by bonito, 115
Canoe, 17, 23, 27, 58 buying of, 27 houses, 89
Canoes, big, 178 building of, 26, 60, 176 small, 61
Cannibalism (Sol. Is.), 95
Capes, 49
Ceremonial purposes, 54
Ceremonies, sacred, 34
Ceremony, 38, 43
Chalmers, James, 65, 198, 199, 200 death of, 204
Chester, Mr., 7
Child, carrying of, 35, 36
Children, 32, 36 games of, 33
Cicatrices, 174 raised, 107
Civilisation, 16
Clark, George, 75, 77 death of, 78
Clay, 62 for pottery making, 62
Climate, 4
Climbing fish, 64
Clubs, 28
Cocoa-nut groves, 29 oil of the, 185 palms, 183
Cocoa-nuts, 62
Coffee, 187
“Coming out,” 38
Compounds, 188
Cook, Captain, 5, 11
Cooking, 34, 111 pots, 20
Copra, 183, 185, 187 boat, 186 trade, 185
Costumes, ceremonial, 30 humour of, 173 queer, 49
Crab, van der, 6
Crocodiles, 15, 122
Cures effected, 45
Custom, another, 42
Dance costumes, 49, 52 description of festival, 51 dook-dook, 50 the fish, 49 the funeral, 128 for love-making, 54 the war, 129
Dances, 30, 49 native, 49
Dancing, 31 art of, 38 ground, the, 51
Dancing, skirt, 52
Davis, Rear-Admiral, 99
Death of a husband, 46 visit of, 46
Demits, 156
Dook-dook dance, 50
Douglas, Hon. John, 7
Draughtsmen, 131
Drawings on wood, 132
Droughts, 4
Drum-making, 38
Drums, 39, 51, 158
Drying ground, 186
Dubu, 54 dance for women, 54 house, an old, 66
Dutch, 5, 6
Dynamite fishing, 63, 117
Eade, Dick, 74
Ear-rings, grotesque, 106
Earth oven, 23
Earthenware jars, 23
Education, 13
Efaté, 153, 154, 167, 172
Effigies, 156, 157
Elevera, 17, 21, 24, 26, 27
Emigration scheme, 12
Enemies, 28
England, 12
Equal rights, 8
Erskine, Commodore, 4
Euro, 88
Evanena, 33
Evil spirits, 46, 160 wishing, fear of, 138
Expedition, hunting, head, 28 of Postillion, 6 of Trinton, 6
Explorers, 3
Faces, decorating of, 175
Faith, 168
Fanarita, 101
Feast, 29
Festival dance, description of, 51
Festivals, 30
Fiddle played by mouth, 131
Fiji, 10, 32
Fijians, 25
Fire, 19 producing of, 132
Fish, 62 climbing, 64 dance, 49 spearing of, 63, 118
Fishing, 26, 180 by bonito, 113 with dynamite, 63, 117 by kite, 116 by moonlight, 116 by nets, 62 by spears, 118 for turtles, 181
Florida Island, 102
Flowers, 104
Food, 23, 108 eating of certain, 40
France, 11, 12
“French Jack,” 11, 93 residents, 143
Fresh water, objection to, 151
Frigate bird, 57, 107
Funeral rites, 126
Funerals, 30
Furniture, 18
Games, 34 rough boyish, 34
Germans, 5
Germany, 10
Gill, Rev. William, 198
Girl’s love-letter, 43
Girls, 34
Glasgow City Mission, 199
Gorging, 91
Government House, 17 officials, 17
Granville, 16
Graveyard, 127
Great Britain, 10, 11
Great southern continent, 10
Guadalcana, 9, 92, 101
Guppy, Dr. H. B., 101, 138
Habitations, 20
Haddon, Professor, 41, 43
Hair, 25, 31, 174 arrangement of, 31 bleached, 107 bushy, 38 sale of, 32
Hanuabada, 17, 24, 26
Harbour, 16
Hardy, Mr., 27, 64, 73, 108, 109, 167
Hayes, Bully, 201
Head-hunter, notorious, 98 hunters, 16 hunting, 37, 97, 102 hunting, big expedition, 28
Heads, shaving of, 25 wanted, 102
Hebrides, 144
Heirlooms, 19
H.M.S. _Fly_, 6
H.M.S. _Rattlesnake_, 6
Honolulu, 32
“Hope,” 89, 134 altars, 136
Houses, construction of (Sol. Is.), 86 interiors of the, 149
Human beings, cooking of, 111
Hunting, 22
Hunting pigs, 120
Husband, death of, 46
Huts, 17, 20 building of, 176 interiors of, 87 of skulls, 168
Hutten, Old Harry, 74
Ibitoe, 38, 39, 166
Idols, 157
Immigrants, 9
Industry, the chief, 145
Infanticide, 102
Ingova of Rubiana Lagoon, New Georgia, 90, 98
Ingova, head-hunters of, 98
Ingova’s Euro, 98 house at Rubiana, 89
Isabel, 9, 101
Islas de Salomon, 9
Ivivu, 130
Jammed, 66
Jew’s harp, 130, 131
Kai-kai dish, 110
Kidnapped, 10, 29
Kite fishing, 116
Kolff, Lieutenant, 5
Krause, Rev. E. W., 198
Labour, 29 boat, the, 188 organised, 29 trade in New Guinea, 189
Ladder, 18
Lakatois, 59, 61 construction of, 60
Laws of marriage, 166
Leap-frog, 33
Legends, 137, 176
Leglets, 42
Le Hunte, George Ruthven, Esq., 8
Lion’s head, the, 92
Loafers, 29
Loafing, 31
Loin-cloth of tappa, 174
London Missionary Society, 196, 199
Love, 40, 41
Love charms, 44
Love-making, 37
Lovesick swain, 41
Lying, art of, 28
Macdonald, Mr., 153
Macgregor, Governor, 7, 189
M‘Ilwraith, Sir Thomas, 7
Mackay, 188
Mai, 100, 101
Malayan trepang, 118
Malays, 5
Malekula, 145, 147, 150, 154, 167, 169, 173, 176, 177, 179, 180, 184
Mambare river massacre, the, 75
Mangoes, 65, 66
Man and wife, 43
Maori method of carrying, 36
Maoris of New Zealand, 25, 44, 45, 194
Marriage, 34, 40 laws, 166 preparation for, 31 proposal of, 37
Masks, 49 construction of, 50 hideous design of, 49
Massacred, 204
Massacres, 14, 102
Mats, 18, 150, 175
Medicine men, 139
Meeting, arrangements for the, 42
Mekko district, 49
Men, burying alive of, 145
Meyer, Don Alvaro Mendana de, 9, 11
Mendana de, Islands, 9
Meyers, Dr., 6
Mineral, 3
Mission of the City of Glasgow, 199
Mission House, 17
Missionaries, 3, 7, 14, 65, 193 tales of, 194
Missionary Society of London, 196, 199
Missionary Society of Tahiti, 197
Moonlight fishing, 116
Moresby, Captain, 6
Mother, 35
Motus, 22, 23
Mourners, the chief, 128
Mourning, 30, 46 special dress, 46 universal, 126
Mouth fiddle, 131
Music, ears for, 130
Narak-burners, 164, 165 stones, 164
Native babies, 35 costume, 30 dances, 48 diet, 111 eyesight, 119 inquisitiveness, 26 instrument, 130 police, 8 police clothes and duties, 30 villages, 86
Natives, 15, 21, 23, 168 of New Guinea, 25 swimming, 67
Naturalisation papers, 12
Necklaces, 52
Nets, 117 hand, 117 fishing, 62
New Britain, 13
New Georgia, 95, 107
New Guinea, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 36, 37, 47, 49, 56, 176, 184 divorce, laws of, 43 labour, trade in, 189 natives of, 25, 26, 44
New Hebrides, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 78, 79, 143, 185 settlement in, 143
New Zealand, Maoris of, 25
Nicolas the Greek, 73
Nose-rings, 106
Oil of the cocoa-nut, 185
Opossum, 121
Ornaments, 104
Outrages, 14
Outriggers, 58, 177
Over-gorging, 161
Paint, 175
Palavanua, 88
Pandean pipe, 130
Papuan, 35, 36, 37, 39 boy, coming of age, 38 dandy, 32
Paradise, veritable, 144
Pentecost Island, 179
Petty Sessions Courts, 8
Pig-a-back, 33 ceremonies, 162 hunting of, 120 sacrifices of, 155
Pile dwellings, 86
Pioneer settler, 144
Pitman and Buzacott, Messrs., 198
Planters, 10
Platform, 18, 21
Police, the, 21, 30 magistrate, 8
Port Moresby, 7, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26, 29, 61, 75 Resolution, 148 Vila, 143
Postillion expedition, 6
Pottery, 24, 61, 176 industry, the, 61 making, 26, 34
Pratt, Johnnie, 74
Preferential tariff, 12
Queensland, 7, 188 coast, 188 Government, 4, 78 sugar refining, 188
Quiros, de, 9, 10, 11
Rain-maker, the, 168 making, remarkable, 170
Rano Island, 177, 179
Raratonga, 197, 201
Religion, 124, 155
Resident magistrate, 8
Residents, French, 143
Rubiana, in, 97, 107
Sacedra, Alvaro de, 5
Sacred ideas, 182 stone, 161
Sacrifice, 29
Sacrifices of pig, 155
Sago, 61, 62
St. Christoval, 101
Sale, 32
Samari, 184
Samoa, 10, 32
San Christoval, 9
Santa Anna, 100 Catalina, 91 Cruz, 9
Sanitary arrangements, 151
Sapuna, 100
Savage song, 159 lands, magic in, 44
Savages, 13
Scratchley, Sir Peter, 7
Sea, men of the, 22
Secret rites, 28
Shaving, 107
Shed, 186
Shell-money, 164 necklaces, 105
Shields, 133
Shooting fish, 64
Silent philosophy, 36
Simbo, 127
“Sing-sing” 167 grounds, 157, 158
Skull-huts, 168
Skulls, string of, 37
Slave-dealers, 191
Solomons or New Guinea, 185
Solomon Islands, the, 9, 10, 13, 84, 86, 91, 94, 145 islanders, clothing of, 104 King, 9
Somerville, Lieut. Boyle T., R.N., 129, 167
Song, a savage, 159
Sorcerer, the, 44
South Pacific, 10 Sea Islands, 3, 13, 14 Seas, excitement of, 75 trader, 71
Spaniards, the, 11
Spanish explorers, 10
Spearing fish, 63, 118
Spears, 28 and clubs, 133
Sports, 120
Staple foods, 62
State councils, 8
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 204
Stories, amusing, 78
Streamers, 174
Street, 17
String armlet, 41
Superstition, 22, 39, 44, 45, 88, 115, 137, 163, 170
Superstitions, 14, 15, 23, 40
Surprise attack, 28, 29
Sweet potatoes, 62
Swimmers and divers, born, 32
Swimming natives, 67
Taboo, 88
Tahitian Missionary Society, 197
Taki, 106
“Tamate,” 198, 201
Tambu houses, 90, 91, 92, 152
Tanna Island, 83, 147, 148, 172, 184
Tappa loin-cloth, 174
Taros, 22, 187
“Tartan Jock,” 79, 81
Tattooing, 32, 56, 107, 174
Thatch, 20
Tierra Australis del Espiritu Santo, 11
Tight-lacing, 41
Tohunga, 44
Tohunganism, 45
Tools, the, 176
Torres, Luis Vaez de, 5, 10, 11 Straits, 5, 11
Trade beads, 172
Traders, 14, 15, 28, 186 burial-ground, 79, 80 experiences of, 81 of the South Sea, 71 risks of, 72 small, tales of the, 73
Tredacua shells, the, 105
Tree-houses, 21
Tribal wars, 22
Trinton expedition, 6
Trumpery adornments, 172
Tupusuli, 64, 65, 66
Turtle fishing, 181
Twine skirts, 54
Urio Moquru, 45, 46
Vegetable, 3
Verandahs, 21, 22
Veritable paradise, 144
Villages, 149
Volcano, 148
Wallaby, 23
War, weapons of, 132, 179
Western islands, 41
Wild animals, 17
Wild diet, 180
Willey, Dr., 109
Williams, John, 197, 204
Witchcraft, 163
Wives, plurality of, 43
Women, 29, 31 folk, 28 and girls, costumes of, 31 labour of the, 34 married, work of the, 35 workers, 175 young, 25
Worship, places of, 157
Wyllie, Dr., 64
Yacht, saving of, 67
Yams, 22, 24, 62, 187 the chief’s, 187
Yost, Prof. von, 64
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below. Original printed page numbers are shown like this: {52}. Original small caps and original bold type are now uppercase. Italics look _like this_. The plates have been moved from within paragraphs to nearby locations between paragraphs. I produced the cover image and hereby assign it to the public domain. Original page images are available from archive.org—search for “savagesouthseas00elki”.
Page 55. Changed "Lakalois" to "Lakatois".
Illustration 25 caption. Changed “hold more that” to “hold more than”.
Page 164. Changed “it is persumed, over” to “it is presumed, over”.
Page 206. Changed index entry “Efate” to “Efaté”.
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