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among the most intelligent and finest peoples of the 

 Pacific, and it is a melancholy satire upon the supposed 

 superiority of our civilization, that it should deteriorate 



Fig. 55.— girl, Hawaii. 



and destroy. The accompanying two photographs from 

 the Challenger collection show us good types of Hawaiian 

 men and women at a recent period. 



It is, however, in the Frie ndly and Navigator's Island of the 



