DARWIN'S THEORY CONFIRMED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1270, 5 January 1883, Page 3

DARWIN'S THEORY CONFIRMED.

A confirmation of the Darwinian theory of the descent of- man is given by th? way in which the ■•natives;of HawaiLclimb trees arid eat cocoannts'. AwiTC€pbji(lehtof the San-Erancjsco Call gfVes...an interesting, account of how theses f,eate wero,. performed at the Bpecial instance of King Kalakaua, : The ewpa-nut ;# trees,in .the grove which was visited are each about 100 ft high,- . and are-»a- devoid of limbs-arid, other, helps, for .'climbing! as. a. flagstaff, A native.toy about, 15-years-.old' wb'b ordered, to climb atrcoand throw down gome fruit, He placed- the palms xjfbis ' bands on the treessides; 'dug his toes into, .the ; . slightly--rough'- bark, 'arid suddenly to the amazement,, of the foreign' 'sjlcctatofsj began walking uji tie tree, much it would seem ape would have done. Until be reached the Yery ; top he touched no part of bis body;tp 'the ; tree' saving' his palms -and toes,; top he-wQimd his legs around; tlie; tree and,:.with. his hand began, to ,tbrow down mits,. Astej ! ; he ~hadliUdesben/led ■ a fuli-giiwi, [ native .was ; '6rde'red up. He placed P, ouly". hia palms and the,.soles, of Ljiia feet .gainst a tree i and-prpceeded. Wlo run u^ (; tOvthp ; t0p..., .He disdained©J!® the slight advantage t of. 'would rather.sMsiWi|^ whioh,hejan with^as ir niuch%s'e, "as 'iib"'^ftd , | reached, tVe^,. instead of 'clasping:,{hb W • with, his j«iig, Jie, lield. on',, wiih; ,*bdtlr, pabmvau.d oae'foot/ and withlhe,«ther foot proce^d^tokickbrtthVcocoa-nu^ directing%l'iri- r tbwards anyof'us v k selected.. .The natives on the ground: took;.the-young cocoa nuts arid stripped the-toliglifibrou?i covenng ( Dver the".'sbeli with ih'pir,. ; tfetb,;. plie-Bhel]B themselves were wiiteriiid sp'^ulSy I ,ps tope.easi!^Wtfe|lh)ough v ;^ : ;/....'.'.'

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