Niue : the “ Savage Island ” of 
Cook . 
HREE hundred miles eastward from the 
X Friendly Islands, and rising abruptly from 
the blue waters of the Pacific, is the lonely and 
verdure-clad Niue, the “Savage Island” of 
Captain Cook, and the abode of one of the 
most interesting and conservative peoples in 
Polynesia. 
If you make the island anywhere on its 
northerly or easterly coast, you will not like 
its appearance. Before you lies what seems to 
be a rounded mass of floating green, the base 
hidden from view by a misty haze that may 
be either fog or smoke. But as the ship gets 
well into the land, and point after point opens 
out, you see that the cloudy mist is neither 
