IMPROVED SAVAGES.
The natives of* the Gilbert Islands, who number about $4,000, and were 40 years ago notorious for their cruelty and bloodrthiretiness, are rapidly becoming Europeanised. Mr Charles Wakeman, Deputy Commissioner ol the Gilbert Group, who is on a visit to Sydney, has a high opinion of them.. He says that they return honie to their islands, after working at the phosphate deposits on Ocean Island, greatly impressed by the superiority of the white man, and the magnitude of his works. They were adapting themselves to the white man's mode of life, and discarding their old customs, and this was in. certain respects being followed by rather grave oonr sequences. They . were substituting European food for their own. They had developed a great liking for .tinned beef and biscuits. .These were N>he curse of the Pacific. White people had become inured to tinned foods; natives had not. The result was that they suffered from various ailments. European food and contentions had a detrimental effect ou natives. The more they lived in the native state the "happier and -better they were.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 September 1913, Page 4
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181IMPROVED SAVAGES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 September 1913, Page 4
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