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Susâni 1901 - Louis Becke
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Title: Susâni
1901
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: April 19, 2008 [EBook #25109]
Last Updated: January 8, 2013
Language: English
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Produced by David Widger
SUSÂNI
From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories
By Louis Becke
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
1901
A few weeks ago I was reading a charmingly written book by a lady (the wife of a distinguished savant) who had spent three months on Funafuti, one of the lagoon islands of the Ellice Group. Now the place and the brown people of whom she wrote were once very familiar to me, and her warm and generous sympathy for a dying race stirred me greatly, and when I came across the name Funâfala,
old, forgotten memories awoke once more, and I heard the sough of the trade wind through the palms and the lapping of the lagoon waters upon the lonely beaches of Funâfala, as Senior, the mate of the Venus, and myself watched the last sleep of Susâni.
Funâfala is one of the many islands which encircle Funafuti lagoon with a belt of living green, and to Funâfala—the island of the pandanus palm
—Senior and I had come with a party of natives from the village on the main island to spend a week's idleness. Fifty years ago, long before the first missionary ship sailed into the lagoon, five or six hundred people dwelt on Funâfala in peace and plenty—now it holds but their bones, for they were doomed to fade and vanish before the breath of the white man and his civilisation and benefits,
which to the brown people
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