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Show FORGET TIME 0NTH1S ISLE Eight Days to Go 90 Miles More Than Week to Return HONOLULU, T. C, Oct. 14 The Isle where time la forg itten la Tuhual, AUBtral group. aiOUt 200 miles sooth of Tahiti, where the popular dream of a languid, Inr.y South Si n extatence really comoa truo, according to Robert T. Altken. aclentMt Of the Bishop museum, mu-seum, who has ual returned from two years of tnvostlgitlon In Tnbual In connection with the inuroum'a efforts to trace tho origin of tho Polynesian race. Utter Indlffor.ince to progress or to th" outside world Is another prominent promi-nent characteristic of the residents and their entlr social and Industrial program apptars to he composed or eating sleeping. tall:lnR and fishing. o ai'j. Taro-nlanking, the xnis oi ft the South Sea food, pol, an 1 fishing are the main occupations. Altken related, as one example of the- indifference ty time, his nxper- lonees in traveling between two Isi-I Isi-I ands After a week's delay In start-I start-I Ing, his party set sail, and the dls- tance uf 90 miles was COTSrcd after j Sight days on the open water. The ! return trln W IS )ostponed for a week, ' ulthouph a stop of only one day had I been scheduled. I The captain was careless in allow- ing leeway and missed his objective by 40 miles, an error that cuit three I of the eight days in traveling time. ' Frequently a schooner, blowu from Its couret by the hurricanes which rise suddenly during the summer months, will wander about for weeks before tlnding Its true position. All schooners schoon-ers are required to carry scctants, hut frequently this Instrument will lack lenses On many vessels the chronometer chrono-meter Is an alarm clock, set regularly each mornlnjr at sunrise. The population of Tubal Is only several hundred, most of them beln of pure Polynesian blood, with some a mlxturo of Caucasian and Chines" About 80 per cent of tho people are protestant and attend church twlco every Sunday ami a rsgular song service ser-vice each V ednesdsy. according to Mr .tMon The remaining 10 per cent are dhided among the CatholP- and 1 1 two branches of the "Tnion church. t BBBBsl BSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsl BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsl |