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Show NATIVES ARE TOO POLITE Papuan Unable to Carry Friend Across Kills Him Because He Did Not Wish to Be Rude. Belated to the weakness which Induces In-duces the Papuan native to lie In order to humor the European is the courtesy which he often displays on the most unexpected occasions. You may tell the same story two or three times to a Papuan, but he will laugh Just as heartily or express just the same astonishment the last time as the first. No hint will escape him that be has beard the story before. Anil even In the crimes which he not Infrequently commits mostly crimes of violence he is not always forgetful of the rules of politeness. "lie wanted me to carry him across the water," said a prisoner who was charged with murdering another native na-tive whom he had met and done to death on the bank of a river, "but he looked very heavy. Of course I could not be so rude as to refuse to carry him, so I thought that the best way out of the difficulty was to kill him." Courteous, too, was the explanation given to nie by some natives of the mountains inland of Rigo, who were charged with attacking a police patrol. "We bad never seen policemen before," they said, "and we did not know what they were. If we had thought for a moment," they added, "that you at-aclied at-aclied any Importance to these persons, per-sons, we certainly would not have '.hrown spears at them, we did not think that they were any good." J Stead's Review, Melbourne. |