The South Sea Trader. 
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been a much interested and amused spectator 
of the proceedings, advanced to the Consul’s 
clerk, and, placing a sovereign upon the table, 
turned to the old trader. 
“ Charley, old man, I’ll pay your fine. This 
has been most enjoyable.” 
But the old order of things in the islands of 
the North and South Pacific is changing rapidly, 
and ere another score of years have passed the 
last one of the old style of traders will have 
disappeared. The new style of trader is merely 
a shopkeeper, pure and not simple, for he buys 
and sells over a counter, and keeps books, and 
carries an umbrella, and only for his surround¬ 
ings might be taken for a respectable suburban 
grocer in England. Of course, however, if you 
sail away beyond the usual track of the regular 
trading vessel even to-day you will come to 
places where a scanty few of the old style of 
men still exist in their isolation. But these are 
men who have made money in the older times. 
They have pushed out in disgust from the 
civilised and crowded groups of Eastern Poly¬ 
nesia, where the voice of the tourist is now 
raucous in the land, because the new conditions 
of life became hateful to them, and the incessant 
