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National Geographic : 1925 Oct
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THE NATIONAl, GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE FATHER AND SONS ON TIlIE MARQUESAN ISLAND OF TAUATA The Marquesas Archipelago has long been famed for the fine physique of its people. wearing of wreaths, and of flowers in the ears, is a widespread custom in Polynesia. Island, where Pere Rougier operates great coconut plantations. Then the France made the first of three visits to the romantic Marquesas. Then far southward among the Austral Islands, removed somewhat from the blight of civilization, and on to lonely Rapa, the "Uttermost Thule" of the Pacific, re nowned for peerless sailors and inter minable hospitality (see pages 419-425). Next, eastward to isolated Pitcairn, where the descendants of Commodore Bligh's seamen, who fled into oblivion after the notorious Bounty mutiny of 1790, were found happy, law-abiding, and devout, suffering not at all for the stormy sins of the fathers (see, also, page 392). After reaching her easternmost goal at Ducie Island, the Prance turned again toward Tahiti by way of the thickly strewn Tuamotus, sending ashore her boats at every rock or palm-green strand. FOLLOWING T i F "FRANCE" While we cannot keep in the wake of the France within the brief scope of this article, we can skip about among the Polynesian isles by drawing upon the voluminous notes of Mr. Beck and his comrades, Messrs. Ernest H. Quayle and The 3888
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