They are quite happy and uncomplaining, and manage to have a reasonably good time in a quiet way, but they will die out, and nobody can prevent them. You see, they are rather bored, and when you are bored, the answer to the question, " Is life worth living... In the Strange South Seas - Page 25by Beatrice Grimshaw - 1908 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
| Kalpana Ram, Margaret Jolly - Social Science - 1998 - 324 pages
...travel writing. Here is another observation apropos Tahitian depopulation and the Pacific in general: They are quite happy and uncomplaining, and manage...is, at the least debatable - to a Pacific islander . . . mutatis mutandis, it applies to nearly all the island races. It is not only the Tahitian who... | |
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