Rarotonga Records

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Excerpt from Rarotonga Records: Being Extracts From the Papers of the Late Rev. W. Wyatt Gill, LL. DIn the Pacific, as elsewhere, sometimes the Offspring Of a slave woman married to a high chief inherits the father's titles and power.The word mega in Rarotongan also signifies hermit-crab. Some Of the younger natives imagine when using the word unya in the sense Of.' slave, ' that there is a sly allusion to the well-known habits Of the hermit-crab - the slave living in a home belonging to another! But the elder natives were too accurate Observers to overlook the important circumstance that the hermit-crab appropriates the forsaken shell Of another, whereas the slave enjoys the protection of the land owner, or chief, to whom he consequently owes allegiance and service. I regard this explanation as extremely modern, although very ingenious.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.