Show letter from samoa pago pago sa in kioa oa A aug W editor clipper clipper some soine months since I 1 hurriedly and carelessly scribbled oil off it a fow few paragraphs paragraph for your esteemed paper relative to an all incident that befell me while making tin BO 80 milo mili run in a small schooner perhaps ati an item or so occasionally will not come amiss hence I 1 am preparing t the j few commonplace facts for your approval and provi providing din t they pass muster I 1 shall be pleased if I 1 have helped in a small way to add a mite to the interest of your or olour our paper for the clipper should bo be considered the tha property of all loyal davis county people A SA SAMOAN IOA BARBECUE iune 1 QUIT 1001 work cork be began an on oil the road today our bunch of co laborers is a n picturesque aggregation gr gre gation all saints typical sa moans every ono one bareheaded bare headed swarthy h hued tied muscular specimens of attired in sit shirt like lla la valoras with bare arms and legs bared to tile tho knees they maintain a steady paco pace all da day before and artor after their ei eight hours of work walking the three miles to and from tile the scene of activity As for white foreigners it is a physical impossibility y for to exert much in this enervating climate is as tho the body lias has a sufficient tusk to leep keep up under normal conditions consequently we two elders direct our efforts mostly towards seeing that thuy they work to the best advantage advant id vantage ae nI although though we also swing ll 11 it a pick to return roll rell home each ni night lit tired and wrin wringing in wet with either perspiration pi ration or rain outside the real work itself conditions are rattier rather pleasant the view from whore where we are working on the high side is a magnificent one F far ar below us blanketing tho the earth with tropical verdure of a brilliant shade of green stretches an all un nn broken layer of majestic coconut blut palms right to the beach while from the there re ou on to the horizon extends the shining blue expanse of tho the pacific Pac itic so much for an explanatory preliminary now comes the part justify justifying in the title of tile tho article it is in relation to ono one of those scenes which is so coin common and characteristic of the country here but which appeal 0 to o the borei foreigner nor as beyond description as some things 11 pet per tabling t to this diversified world of ours oms require beholding to thoroughly appreciate but to proceed the agreement lad bad previously been mido made with the natives tint that wo would furnish them with a beef each week thit that they worked on tho load so today we rounded up the cattle and af after ter selecting one of the largest in the hard it wits was lassoed and led down to the village nono none of us were accustomed cus tomed to tho the business in hand but we all tried to assume know edie edge and tako take things thing as they come and make the best of it all wo we all decided that the first thin thing to do in lulling a critter ci itter ava its life so mr steer cleor was securely tied to ii a I 1 largo argo g tree on tile the bank of the river river and I 1 stepped bravely forth with a shot gun to do the act I 1 took look careful aim at it a distance of two feet and after tile thu had cleared away there stood the animal with a peaceful undisturbed look slightly astonished but not in tho the least startled the next bliok however brought bi ought him to tho the n ground and as that ed our part of tho the program we c stopped stepped aside to luimit tile the natives to do the lancy fancy work according to the samoan ideals A half dozen of thein ilow ftp ped pea forward armed with great knives two foot feat in in length and the care carcass was dragged to the waters tie ti age e the process of skinning now began imagine doing this to it a cr lature crea tuie laying on the rough lava lav a rock when there were plenty of largo trees nearby on which it could have been suspended but it was to be a samoan f function u so no objections please af after ter a great deal of hacking slashing witting cutting it was finally undressed and then dressed to wards the latter part of the op oil oration it slipped off into tho river and in the water the work went on uninterrupted it was certainly a circus worth double the price of admission and we had a continual laugh throughout the cutting up wits done tit in an all original manner tile the large knives used ordinarily in bush weeding were utilized in hacking ingoff off chunks of flesh these divisions wore were placed ona on a layer of banana lealev ll 11 after alie style of sentill Set salting till a table until SO 30 piles had beon been in adot ilat boin briny tho the of if mail inoa who nat hid worked on oil the road thaw who had dono done the full we olti work received tile alio larger por par lions th thon an the bunes bone weli well stripped cfall of all hesli were nvere likewise ise distributed neither tho the Ont entrails ralls feet deot nor ilor head wore were wasted the men mail standing in hi the water cacti with a coveted covate d morsel in his liand hand it may fifty not liot appear from my weak description to be ba an unusual event but tt it was certainly picturesque scene tho ilia luxuriant vegetation tho the river turning llois ily over its bed of lava rock the curiously attired natives tho the roughly r biily uI ily dissected dissect ea carcass of the beef and thu the strange jabber and chatter of the participants all combined to form a picture at once striking 11 and rare and I 1 shall not lot soon forget my first glimpse of a typical sai samoan noan butcher shop elder eider john Q adams pago pago tutuila samoa |