| Show I How Salutations Differ The natives of at different countries I vary In their salutations j meeting after a long separation separation I tion remarks Yah I or something to to- that effect Torres Strait Islanders I I grunt their greetings Some Papuans raise their arms others shout the name of ot the newly arrived Javanese Javan Javan- Javanese ese are fond of a lo long g complicated address address ad- ad I dress of welcome In some some- South Sea Islands noses are rubbed In othI others others oth oth- ers the hands are held up palms out out- I wards But all nn take tale to the whiteman's whiteman's white whiteman's mans man's fashion of shaking hands Once I when traveling along the beach near I the river Papua a wrinkled j I old heathen rushed out from a n small village mage placed himself directly In my path spat on his hand held It out and said Tomorrow tomorrow 1 i 1 Farewells are often Impressive e In In- southeast Papua they have a so long acutely conveys conyes the idea of sadness sadness sad sad- ness at parting It is Eo Eo Or I o Eo oo o-o-oo o and when half hundred halt a hundred are chanting it the long out long out oris art or Is one o of the saddest sounds Ima imams able r |
