
Faery Lands of the South Seas, by Hall & Nordhoff, Part 2
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The Life of the Palmatuans
By that time I was almost as much attracted by the lonely life of the islands as my friend, Crichton. My old feeling of restlessness was gone and its place had come a certitude of well-being. In many respects the Palmatuans like other divisions of the Polynesian family are children who have never grown up. One can't blame them for a lack of artificial virtues which come only with maturity. They are without guile. It may be said too without overstatement that their community life very nearly approaches perfection. Crime, insanity, feeble-mindedness, evils all too common with us, are of such rare recurrence that one may say they do not
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