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Every evening they arrived at a Yam or lodging, and once every week at a city. On the fourth of the month Shawal they reached the river Karamuran , which is as large as the Jihon or Amu.
The natives brought them freely of their simple store yam, taro, bread-fruit, and cocoanut, with plenty of fish, crabs, and lobsters, as well as eggs by the basketful, and even sometimes chickens. They required no pay beyond a nod and a smile, and went away happy at those slender recognitions.
But here was a lady who kindly contributed to my studies and offered me folklore and survivals in cultivated Kensington. My mind had strayed from the potato cure to the New Zealand habit of carrying a baked yam at night to frighten away ghosts, and to the old English belief that a bit of bread kept in the pocket was sovereign against evil spirits.
The Feejee Group excel all other islands of Polynesia in their luxuriant and picturesque beauty they produce all kinds of tropical fruits and vegetables the bread-fruit, of which there are nine kinds, flourishes in great perfection; the banana, cocoa-nut, and chestnut, the orange, the lemon, and the guava, the pine-apple, and the nutmeg, are all to be found; and the yam, which attains the length of above four feet, is the principal food of the inhabitants; besides these, the sugar-cane and turmeric are largely cultivated, and different varieties are found growing wild.
Before we got them returned again into the grave they were shaken to pieces, except the thighs, which continued to retain a kind of flabby form. All his clothes that were sewed with linen yam were lying in separate portions, the thread having rotten; but such as were sewed with worsted remained perfectly firm and sound.
"Monsieur," the Frenchman answered, trying to cover his rags with his native cape, "that explains itself easily. I was a medical student in Paris in the days of the Commune. Ah! that beloved Paris how far away it seems now from Boupari! Like all other students I was advanced Republican, Socialist what you will a political enthusiast. When the events took place the events of '70 I espoused with all my heart the cause of the people. You know the rest. The bourgeoisie conquered. I was taken red-handed, as the Versaillais said my pistol in my grasp an open revolutionist. They tried me by court-martial br'r'r no delay guilty, M. le President hard labor to perpetuity. They sent me with that brave Louise Michel and so many other good comrades of the cause to New Caledonia. There, nine years of convict life was more than enough for me. One day I found a canoe on the shore a little Kanaka canoe you know the type a mere shapeless dug-out. Hastily I loaded it with food yam, taro, bread-fruit I pushed it off into the sea I embarked alone I intrusted myself and all my fortunes to the Bon Dieu and the wide Pacific. The Bon Dieu did not wholly justify my confidence. It is a way he has that inscrutable one. Six weeks I floated hither and thither before varying winds. At last one evening I reached this island. I floated ashore. And, enfin, me voil
The ravens "Ha-ha-ed" and "Ho-ho-ed" as they went. Quonab took the fateful horn that Rolf had chopped off, and hung it on a sapling with a piece of tobacco and a red yam streamer , to appease the evil spirit that surely was near. There it hung for years after, until the sapling grew to a tree that swallowed the horn, all but the tip, which rotted away.
No, no cocoa-nut milk not a lilly drap of water; debil see you damned first. Suppose you ask, he poke um fire and laugh. Well, den, ab you charity? No, you ab not. You, Quashee, how you dare look me in the face? You keep shop you sell egg you sell yam you sell pepper hot but when you give to me? Eh! nebber, so help me God. Suppose you no send you no ab charity, and you go to hell.
The next morning they went with their shovels to the yam plantation, and commenced their work. As the ground was soft and swampy, the labour was very easy. The ditch was dug nearly a yard wide, and the earth thrown up on a bank inside. They then went to where the large patch of prickly pears grew, and cut a quantity, which they planted on the top of the bank.
A very little of this, with a bit of yam deliciously cooked, and brought to me each day as a present by some one from their cooking ovens, makes a capital dinner. Then I have some rice and sugar for breakfast, a biscuit and coffee, and a bit of bread-fruit perhaps; and all the little delicacies are here salt, pepper, mustard, even to a bottle of pickles so I am pretty well off, I think.
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