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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas, by Lloyd Osbourne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas Author: Lloyd Osbourne Release Date: August 6, 2009 [EBook #29621] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILD JUSTICE: STORIES OF SOUTH SEAS *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) WILD JUSTICE [Illustration: "'Jack,' she said suddenly, 'you come along with us.'"] WILD JUSTICE STORIES OF THE SOUTH SEAS BY LLOYD OSBOURNE AUTHOR OF "BABY BULLET" [Illustration] D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK :: MCMXXI COPYRIGHT, 1906, 1921, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE Deep in every heart there seems to be a longing for a more primitive existence; and though in practice it is often an illusion, the South Seas lend themselves better to such dreams than any other part of the world. There are fewer races more attractive than the Polynesians. Frank, winning, gay and extraordinarily well-mannered, the higher types are often remarkably good-looking, and scarcely darker than Southern Europeans. Some aspects of their life are truly poetic. Half naked, with flowers in their hair, and just sufficient work to keep them in superb physical condition, they have an almost unlimited leisure to share with the wayfarer in their midst. And dirt, that greatest of all human barriers, is nonexistent. No people are cleaner; none have so intense a personal self-respect. One wonders sometimes whether it is not the white man who is the savage, and these in some ways his superiors. I went to the Pacific when I was a boy of twenty, remaining there till I was twenty-eight. For two years I sailed in various ships, visiting not only all the principal groups, but stopping at many a lost little paradise like Manihiki, Nieue or Gente Hermosa, which lie so lonely and apart that
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