Show SCIENTISTS S HO HOW Vt UP DESCRIPTIVE WRITERS Mystery House Proves Not Notto to Be Be Imposing I m Structure ture Sly HIT JOHN JOliN c. c J POOLE APIA S Samoan moan Islands Nov S. S One s.-One One of the biggest projects UIl undertaken by byI bythe I the scientific world in many years Polynesia Polynesia Poly rob of is the a anthropological U survey nesia now going on under the a auspices auspices aus aus- US- US of ot the Bishop museum of Hono lIonO- lulu Various parties of scientists are areto areto to be scattered over the tho entire Pacific I Ocean Islands Many of them are now in the field The party under Prof E. E W. W T Gf Gf- of the University of California on the way ay to Tonga for research work vork stopped at Samoa long enough to make a It i very interesting discovery S PUZZLE For nearly years scientific men and end travelers have filled pa pares pages e with v accounts of a prehistoric rum ruin burled burld in the mountains of U Upolu on which Apia capital of western Samoa Samoa Samoa-is Is is situated These ruins were variously and somewhat vaguely de described do- do scribed oas as as the work of that race o of builders In stone who have left vast I monuments of their civilization from ancient Britain to the Jungles of lucaA Yuca- Yuca tan A A prominent professor of a New Zealand university described them as I being not inferior to the famous Stone Stone- henge hense It was thought that they were I the work worl of Tongan Tonga natives during the p period when they held the Samoan I group in subjection The guide books I all refer to this place as one of the sights to see soe during the da day or two that the steamer from New Zealand I is In port SEAT SE OV OF OCTOPUS Far back in a tropical jungle Inthe in inthe inthe the bed of a mountain stream in the form of rough are arc strewn some uncut tones stories frem the hillside None of th th-jm th m is over four feet high A crude pile of stones give a rough impression impression im im- im- im of n. n seat at the head This credulous natives say was the throne of the Fee Fea or Octopus after whom the place was named The legand runs that an octopus b becoming enamored of a beautiful woman pursued her to this place and built this now ruined structure as their dwelling WRITERS WHITEns DONT DON'T KNOW Every writer on Samoa has ref referred to this l Fale ale o 0 le Ie Fe and all have spoken in eloquent terms of the mystery mystery mystery mys tery and the imposing majesty of the ruin It is har hardly ly possible that a single one of these thesa writers ever visit visited d the place or they woud never have given the spot more than brief mention Judge Watson of Apia apparently was t the he first man to write a book on Samoa who by his description could have hae had hand first-hand acquaintance with the region It is true that it is a mystery But Butas Butas Butas as a ruin t has about bout as much scientific scientific eden eden- value as Barnum's white elephant |