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CllII.DICKN GIVEN TO THE .SKA.Uotr Ocrv-l'oitultttion in Prersiitrrt in thr IhIhs of the South Puri fit-. jSnn Francisco Chronicle.]A Cl mu trie reporter yesterday interviewed Capt. Kanzuu. who for fourteen years has been cruising about in the South Seas. He j said that famine and starvation were fre-1 queut ou the coral islands of the Pacific, i Capt. Ranzau has seen great suffering on the Kingsmill group, owing to the failure of the cocoanut tree to produce the usual crop. The vessel of which he was master reached the island at 8 a. in., and by 12 o'clock m. he had 130 natives on board—all he could carry. No force was used, the chiefs allowing their subjects to come on board freely. The natives thus procured were destined for Samoa. On other t^casious the Captain carried away natives with their free and | full consent, but they would not go anywhere j else iban to Samoa, for fear of being sold in-: to slavery. Captain lhmzau asserts that when famine exists on the Kingsmill group the newly born children are exposed on the reefs to Ije carried out to sea by the current. The destruction of female infants in China, to prevent over population, is well known, but in tin; Coral groups of the South Pacific, when a famine prevails, both male and female are exnosed to destruction. The nativesj are by no means cruel, but this pructice isI resorted to in order to prevent over popula-I tion and starvation. What is described as ; having happened on the Kingsmill group frequently happens on many other coral groups.One of the most interesting islands south of the equator is Quiros Island, known to the Spaniards as ‘Tsladela Gente Hermosa. (Island of Handsome People), and to the natives as ••Olosiga.** It is there that the American patriarch. Eli Jennings, resides, who is the venerable father-in-law of Capt. Itanzau. Olosiga Island was discovered by the Spanish navigator Quiros, in 1000, and is named after him on many of the maps now in use. When Eli Jennings first visited theisland, more than thirty years ago. he foundtwo skeletons, a male and female, bleachingin the snu. They were reclining under a palm tree, and are supposed to have been the remains of an old couple who starved todeuth.: Ii is u tradition that all the natives were stolen from the island by Peruvian slavers, and that the couple whose skeletons were found were too old to be carried off. Quiros, accordiug to the chronicles, found a ' remarkably hill and very handsome race of people on Olesioa. and for this reason called
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Daily Globe
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sun, Feb 24, 1878
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