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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from Hugh M. Smith 



NATIVE CRAFT WITH ITS SAIL TIED UP TO "SPIIX" A TOO-FRESH BREEZE 



One of the characteristic devices of this boat is the outrigger, a piece of wood sharpened 

 at both ends and fixed parallel to the length of the boat, which stabilizes the craft and even 

 permits open-sea sailing without materially decreasing its speed. 



called throughout the Pacific, as he is 

 supposed to have introduced their pro- 

 genitors. 



One of the governors ordered all pigs 

 penned. The owners built pens and put 

 the pigs inside, but neglected to give them 

 food and water, as they bad never been 

 in the habit of giving them any care, and 

 they began to die; so the order was re- 

 scinded. The pork is delicious, as the 

 pigs are fed exclusively on coconuts. 



The natives also keep peculiar-looking 

 chickens. The roosters have small bodies 

 and abnormally long legs, so that they 

 appear to walk upon stilts, while the hens 

 are very small and lay small brown eggs. 



If this is a case of reversion to type, the 

 rooster being descended from some long- 

 legged ancestor and the hen from some 

 tiny one, and if the tendency continues, 

 there will come a time when the rooster 

 will stand so high on his stilted legs and 

 the hen will be so small and so far below 

 him that they will not see each other at all. 



The natives do not eat eggs, and the 

 hens rear their broods unhindered, unless 

 the owner desires to "catch shillings" in 

 the white settlement, when he gathers all 

 eggs that have not actually hatched and 

 offers them for sale. 



Tame frigate-birds are kept on large 

 roosts close to the beach, and a favorite 



