outrigger-canoes

Updated: June 15, 2025

In the deep shade some natives were squatting round fires, and close by some large outrigger-canoes lay on the beach. On three sides the steep wooded slopes of the former crater's walls rise up to a sharply dented ridge, and it all looks like a quiet Alpine lake, so that one involuntarily listens for the sound of cow-bells.

Felix Speiser - Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific