Show SOUTH SEA ISLANDS YOUNG HAIUIZSOX TELLS OF THE TIME HE HAD Del That Another War Is About Due in Samoa ant That I Cannot Be Staved Off Loaded Down with Presents SAN FRANCISCO Dee 20 William Preston Harrison son of the late Mayor Harrison of Chicago who has just returned from a years cruise among the South Sea islands has many interesting stories to tell of his voyage Besides narrowly escaping death n the hands of cannibals in the Solomon islands toe had numerous other startling experiences A native may take you Into h house at night and treat you the best kind he said He will never molest you there on the score of hospitality and can remain there and be you ran thee per fectlysafe Nevertheless the next day after you start away ho is just a liable a not t overtake you and knock you on the head with his club The social ethics ore then off If it may be considered that being baled affair in the headtakers pot is not 3 social Gruesome RoIicM I saw in some places a many a seventyfive skulls In a place all relics of the head hunters There were many places where such lots of skulls could be seen The more heads a brave had taken the higher he was esteemed They hold the heads in the same estimation esti-mation as an Indian does his scalps They add renown to him according to the number he has As long as this state of feeling prevails I can be seen that i will not stop I went down to the Pacific Islands largely for pleasure but intending to do some literary work while absent I had worked very hard while in Chicago and wanted a good rest The Island life is so peculiar that I fell in with island ways and did no work at all JnNt Like n Native I discarded all clothes except a native na-tive garment about my loins and let my beard grow long till I got back to Svdnev Wlup gr1ng < naked the sunburned sun-burned my hack till it became exceedingly exceed-ingly sOre and the skin peeled off in patches Finally it healed up and got as hard and a impervious to the suns rays a that of the native I went abut a much a I dared on the islands and much more than I would do again It is down there a it once was on the western plains and mountains with the Indians You get accustomed to the danger and dont always think so much about i as you ought I wouldnt go through again what I have this time for anYthing in the world Another IVur Coming I also spent l considerable time during dur-ing Kiy absence in the Interior of Samoa Sa-moa I slept night after night with Malleton Pyre < wlt tains They told me a great deal about their troubles My opinion Is there will be another war there and it may como soon When I left the king and different differ-ent chiefs I was fairly loaded down with presents I w so fascinating there that I would like to go back but I dont care to see any more of th Solomon islanders |