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Show PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC Palm-Clothed Islands That Have All of the Riches Man Has Any Need to Covet. The little-known Trobriaud group of islands is a cluster of palm-clothed gems that stud the emerald Pacific a hundred-odd miles northeast of Sa-marai Sa-marai (Papua). They are the real thing in coral romance. The natives are of the Melanesian type, happy people peo-ple with a fondness (especially on the part of the star-eyed maidens) for Europeans, who have exploited the rich pearl fishery. They are advanced in arts and crafts, and produce a tremendous tre-mendous quantity of carved weapons and ornaments, which are eagerly bought by tourists from curio-dealers in Sydney and Melbourne. Before competition set In the islanders island-ers did not get much for their pearls. Gems worth .$50 and $75 were freely bought for as many pence. The group is fiat, but is richly clothed in Jungle, and produces vast quantities of excellent excel-lent yams, which are traded. Good climate, gorgeous scenery, blue seas like billowing silk, diamond-dusted beaches and splendid fishing and shooting shoot-ing I . |