Show NATIVES ARE TOO POLITE Papuan Unable to Carry Friend Aero Across Acro Kills Kill Him Because He H. Old Did Not Wish to Be Rude r Related to the weakness which which Induces induces in duces the Papuan native to fie In order to o humor the European Is the courtesy which he often displays on the most unexpected occasions You may tell the game story two or three times to a n Papuan but he be will laugh just as heartily or express just the same same l uI astonishment ih the l last st time times as s the first No hint will escape him that hat he ba has heard the story before And even in the crimes which he be not Infrequently Q commits mostly commits mostly crimes of f violence he violence he is not always forgetful of f the rules of ot politeness lie He wanted me toe to carry him across the he water said sold a prisoner b. b r. r who was wa's was I charged barged with murdering another naive native na nn- na- na I tive ive whom he had bod met and done to death eath on the brink bank of a river but he tie hel l looked very ery h heavy avy Ot 1 T could not lot be so rude as to to refuse t to carry corry him so I thought that the test best way out of of the difficulty was to kill him C Courteous too was the explanation given to me by some natives of the mountains Inland of who were charged barged with attacking a police patrol We had hod never ne seen policemen before they hey sold said and we slid did not know knout what they hey were If we had thought t for r a Ii Moment they added that you at- at ached any Importance to these Ulese per pert Ions ons we certainly would not have thrown brown rown spears at them we did not think that they were any good good Stead's Review Melbourne |