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Show SOUTH SEA NATIVES AMUSE EUROPEANS Llttlo Brown Islanders Said to Have an Exaggerated Idea of Their Own Importance. TAHITI, Tapeete. Aiifc. 3. (By the Asso-ci.ited Asso-ci.ited Tress. l The travoler who comes to the South Sea Islands expect ins to find the inhabitant in-habitant caper to acknowledge the superiority of the white man nnd yearning to do him honor is likely to be disappointed. ' Heeriu;-e t hes islands from early days have been the haunts of some of the most picturesque pictur-esque of the world's flotsam and j-'tsani, the , brown nn t ivt hns a en m rod ediu'at ion in the, nppraisnl of rhararter. Bf re tl-.e traveler 1 has been to r a peel e t went y - four hours usua 11 y he lias bon n-T..l and his oharacter. sialion in life and possible fnteniius have been an-alyred. an-alyred. "hite r'-sldfnt-; und-rsfandin tr th Tahiti.m laneuaKe derive no 1 i ; 1 1 a inusm ir.r from I'.s-teniTic I'.s-teniTic to the discussions of th natives, whlrh Indicate th.it the brown men. sroretly in their l'.rfrt!. consider tliemselres suo-Tior to 'be Iv,tr'-pe.ins. The n-w.-oni-r must prr-re h:s fjnpltiy n;,d show evidence of f- breeding 1 before he. can gahi iba esteem of the populace. |