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Identifier: persiangulfsouth00boeh (find matches)
Title: The Persian Gulf and South Sea Isles
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Boehm, Edgar Collins, Sir, bart., 1869-
Subjects: Persian Gulf Region -- Description and travel Oceania -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Horace Cox
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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them any betterthan their own. They are, both in face andphysique, far superior to any Maoris I eversaw in New Zealand, and they have not suchthick lips or flat noses. Some of the women, and children partic-cularly, are sweetly pretty, with charmingexpressions, the very height of good temperand fun beaming in every feature, and they havemagnificent teeth. They hold themselves veryupright, but are too stiff to be called graceful. The men seemed to be rarely under fivefeet eight inches, and many we saw wereabout six feet, broad and muscular, with hugearms and necks like bulls. What struck us as curious were the scarsor eruptions of some sort which so many ofthe men and the women had on their legs •round scars about the size of a shilling, lookinglike the result of boils. These natives of the Tonga, or FriendlyIsles, are supposed never to have gone in forcannibalism like the Fijians. The town, orlarge village, the capital of Tonga, is calledNukualofa, and consists of one-storied wooden
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ISMH A TONGAN GlR) Tonga. 121 houses, with corrugated iron roofs, scatterabout, and standing in small gardenssurrounded by low wooden fences. Thestreets are of grass, and where there areany gaps they are filled in with quantitiesof dried leaves, and when there has beenmuch rain driving is easy and pleasant inthe light four-wheeled traps which are sentover from Auckland. The natives mostly ride,using cheap English leather saddles, their toesholding the stirrups monkey fashion. Theyusually go at an Arab canter. All the horsesare of the poorest description. After a certain amount of bother, we man-aged to get hold of a half-caste native willingto hire us his horse and trap, but as thesteamer was leaving in the evening about fiveit was impossible to go for a very long drive The bush scenery, through long grass roads,like broad drives in shootings at home, wasvery pretty. Many beautifully coloured flowersand the tall slender cocoa-nut tree everywherearound you. The natives cultivate this t

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