Show NOTED IS 13 HEARD AT Y M G A Prof Wailer nIter Norton Tells of People Ami Customs or of Pacific Islands Prof Waiter Norton fellow of at the tho Royal Roal Geographical society and said to be the first white man born In Nosy New Zealand made an Inter address Sunday afternoon before the Y M C CA CA A on After Aftel detailing an Ideal trip from rein Salt Lake to Samoa the speaker said After ACter a two weeks voyage we hear the welcome sounds tram from the tho natives of at Samoa Talofa ringing out tram from the dozens of small crafts which are aro brought alongsIde the vessel upon Its arrival In the harbor of at Apa with withIn In two or three yards ards of at the beach from a clear vIew of the whole of at Samoa may be had Talofa Is a native greeting of wol come meaning How are you rou Glad to see you or words to that effect In there are moro more than Is Islands lands 36 lakes Inkes Si 88 mountains rivers und and creeks and nearly nearl OO towns Includes the HawaiIan Is Islands lands from the tropic of at Cancer to the tho tropic of at Capricorn 22 degrees north and south the line extending to New Ness Zealand about 45 degrees south and in n eludes the ilie Philippines Borneo Sum atm Ja Java Papua or New Guinea Solomon Islands Australia FIJI Samoa Tasmania New Zealand and the whole shoIe of at Malaysia and the Sunda Islands The area omitting Japan Australia and Malaysia Is square miles and the population Is II es estimated estimated at The Tho people are bearded energetic impulsive and often oCten fierce savages and hero and there can cannibalism 18 ii met metIn metIn In Samoa the tho natives are I ly averse to labor They Thoy occasionally will dry a little copra and place It on the vessel In the Uto harbor and when Importuned importuned tuned b by the tho minister at the church they will commence work at sunrise and brIng In Iii coral tram from the tho sea carry carly lag Ing It In baskets and dumpIng It Into a hOle for the purpose of making limo for church buildings Apia the capital was the tho first or of call for the ilio John Williams the tho missIonary ship In the year ear 1830 The Tho missionaries have hae done a large amount of at good work nearly all the ilia religions being represented on the Islands I 1 at attended attended tended Sunday school at Apia on ono one occasIon and was deeply Interested The boys wore seated on one side or of ortho the tho church while the girls sat on the tho theother other sIde The pastor or reader In front Wl was correcting errors ot of the scholars then ilien would come a loud laugh from the girls when one of the tho boys bos had mispronounced a word and th the same laugh would break out among the tho boys when shen the tho gIrls made a mis mistake mistake take The penalty for the boyar boy or girl making the tho error was to go to the front of t the church and kiss the knob I of the balustrade ot of the tho pulpit stairs stair Some Sarno Idea of at the average temperature may bo be had when I tell you ou that wo we hud had to lay tho butter on our bread with n a spoon most of at the tho time The Tho hurricane seasons are November and April and In 1850 the hurricane al almost almost most destroyed Apia March arch 16 15 1809 the American gunboats Trenton and the German warshIps Alder and Eber were destroyed by ono one of at these terrible onslaughts of tho wInd and for tor many years ears after atter I saw the wreckage strewn on the beach over eVOI where Robert Louis Stevenson died at hIs residence which Is three miles Inland from Apia In 1691 and shortly after aCter his death I was again on the tho Island I resIded In the that ho he built hll heAl ma mans forty In the tho arm chair that he tiled died In smoked man many of the cigarettes left behind b bhim by him milked the tho three cows that ho he hud had left at pasture climbed the trees on his estate and gathered Quantities ot of otrich rich arid and passion fruit and wild hibiscus I whitewashed hIs grave which Is upon the top of a mountain close clope b by his house and I lived In trul truly native fashion Just all an Robert LouIs Stevenson would have had me ma do |