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Samarai / by E. Harris

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Harris, E
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SR N 080 PAM v. 297 no. 5126A
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[Sydney : W.. McLeod.], 1911
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SAMARAI  

Samarai  

Jure 1, 1911-THE LONE HAND  

Little Known Papuan Island Paradise  

BY E. HARRIS.  

(Illustrated by Photographs by the Author.)  

ONE requires the pen of poet to  

describe Samarai and to do jus-  

tice to its beauty. It is tiny  

island in the China Straits, some sixty  

acres, lying off the eastern end of New  

Guinea. It is an isle of palms, cro-  

tons, coral paths, and sweet warbling  

birds. It is green gem—an emerald  

—in the amethyst setting of the ocean,  

girdled by isles of tropic beauty,  

Samarai irresistibly reminds one of  

scene from “Florodora.” It is mass  

of vivid color, the sky surely of  

deeper blue than in any other part of  

the earth; the sea revealing through  

its crystal clearness masses of brightly  

colored coral, while the crotons are  

riot of rich shades of yellow—pale ten-  

der yellow merging into green, faint  

delicate green darkening to red, the  

many shades of red mellowing into  

brown, and the brown into black, each  

color catching the eye as being separ-  

ate and distinct, and yet impossible to  

define as to where one shade ends or  

the other begins. Here is an avenue  

of those gorgeous crotons, with the  

white coral path winding like silver  

ribbon down the side of hill; there  

is an avenue of palms, whose tall,  

stately trunks tower aloft like the pil-  

lars of some majestic cathedral. From  

the summit of the small hill in the  

centre of the island one looks over the  

tops of the palms, an ocean of cool,  

green feather-like fronds, between  

which are seen glimpses of soft, cool  

green sward beneath. The air is as  

full of sweet sounds as the scene is  

beautiful. There are sweet song birds  

B2  

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