THE NAKED, BLACK PAPUAN 47 
and to save the poor, beautiful Birds of Paradise, as 
well as other beautiful birds, from being killed and 
killed until they are all dead. Think what a lot of 
good you will have done, then, to have kept such 
beauty safe in the world, when it might have been 
lost out of it for ever. Yes, and you will have 
done more good than that even, for you will have 
helped to wake up the Goddess of Pity, and when 
once she is awake there will be so much for her to 
do—for, ah! she has been asleep so long. 
But, now, listen. I have told you that the man 
who kills the Great Bird of Paradise is black and 
naked and a savage. But he is not a negro, although 
he is rather like one. His hair is something like a 
negro’s hair, but there is much more of it. In fact 
it is quite a mop, and he is very proud of it. He 1s 
a Papuan, and the islands that he lives in are called 
the Papuan Islands, and are a very long way from 
Africa, which is where the negroes live. He is a tall, 
fine-looking man, with a beautiful figure, and he 
looks very much better naked than he would do if 
he were dressed. And when I said that he was black, 
this was not guite true, because he is really brown, 
but it is such a very dark brown that it looks black, 
and when a man is such a very dark brown that he 
looks black, then people wi#// call him a black man, so 
that is what we will call this Papuan. Now, this 
