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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



dressed in the ancient Samoan costume, gave us a superb per- 

 formance of the intricate motions of hand and arm which char- 

 acterize the dance. It was well for her that the feet and body 

 play a minor role, for she weighed over two hundred pounds ! 



By midnight we became drowsy; the monotonous rhythm of 

 the dance having anything but an exciting effect on a white man. 

 "Beds" were prepared, simply by piling mat after mat, one on 

 top of the other, on the pebble-floor. Instead of the usual bark- 



A Samoan Feast 



The meats are prepared in such a way as to retain their flavor and juices by the Samoan 

 fireless cooker. 



cloth, "siapu," we were each given cotton sheets in which to wrap 

 ourselves. 



At break of dawn the whole village was deserted for the little 

 churches, but the lazy white man slept on — a scandal to the 

 countryside. Hot gruel made from about ten native vegetables 

 brought a more immediate response than church bells and we 

 scattered for the day, some to take photographs, some to penetrate 

 the wooded slopes of the mountains nearby, some to collect birds 



