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SAMARAI
Fix this textSamarai
Fix this textJure 1, 1911-THE LONE HAND
Fix this textA Little Known Papuan Island Paradise
Fix this textBY E. HARRIS.
Fix this text(Illustrated by Photographs by the Author.)
Fix this textONE requires the pen of a poet to
Fix this textdescribe Samarai and to do jus-
Fix this texttice to its beauty. It is a tiny
Fix this textisland in the China Straits, some sixty
Fix this textacres, lying off the eastern end of New
Fix this textGuinea. It is an isle of palms, cro-
Fix this texttons, coral paths, and sweet warbling
Fix this textbirds. It is a green gem—an emerald
Fix this text—in the amethyst setting of the ocean,
Fix this textgirdled by isles of tropic beauty,
Fix this textSamarai irresistibly reminds one of a
Fix this textscene from “Florodora.” It is a mass
Fix this textof vivid color, the sky surely of a
Fix this textdeeper blue than in any other part of
Fix this textthe earth; the sea revealing through
Fix this textits crystal clearness masses of brightly
Fix this textcolored coral, while the crotons are a
Fix this textriot of rich shades of yellow—pale ten-
Fix this textder yellow merging into green, faint
Fix this textdelicate green darkening to red, the
Fix this textmany shades of red mellowing into
Fix this textbrown, and the brown into black, each
Fix this textcolor catching the eye as being separ-
Fix this textate and distinct, and yet impossible to
Fix this textdefine as to where one shade ends or
Fix this textthe other begins. Here is an avenue
Fix this textof those gorgeous crotons, with the
Fix this textwhite coral path winding like a silver
Fix this textribbon down the side of a hill; there
Fix this textis an avenue of palms, whose tall,
Fix this textstately trunks tower aloft like the pil-
Fix this textlars of some majestic cathedral. From
Fix this textthe summit of the small hill in the
Fix this textcentre of the island one looks over the
Fix this texttops of the palms, an ocean of cool,
Fix this textgreen feather-like fronds, between
Fix this textwhich are seen glimpses of soft, cool
Fix this textgreen sward beneath. The air is as
Fix this textfull of sweet sounds as the scene is
Fix this textbeautiful. There are sweet song birds
Fix this textB2
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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