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Show Thought Mail Was White Man's Food. Rev. Hiram lllngham, who anUed lere the other day from Honolulu on he liner Alameda, Is one of the most ilcturesque figures In the modern his-ory his-ory of the South Seas. His life has 'een devoted to work In anil for the "lllbert Islands, hlch ho tlrst United n 1857. When be first visited the Gilbert Is-'unds Is-'unds the natives had no knowledge of vrltlng and had never seen paper The first mall that arrived for the missionaries mis-sionaries was stolen by the native -arrler to whom It was intrusted and 'llstributed In pai tides to tho other natives, who ato the scraps under the Impression that they weio some kind if white man's food. San Francisco Chronicle. |