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Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
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Namus; in Malay, Nyamok) is atrue cosmopolitan. It now has been proved beyondcontradiction that certain species of mosquito inswampy and miasmatic districts, such as that of theNiger and Limpopo Rivers, act as distributors ofmalaria, which I think few Tahitians would dispute,though to them Africa is still a Dark Continentindeed. An excellent check on these plagues wouldbe the introduction of the Prussian carp, or alliedspecies of that family, into the larger ponds andbrooks to devour all mosquito ova, and thus, in thewords of the Irish orator, to nip the crocodile in thebud. The scientist who succeeds in such a plan,taking a leaf out of the book of the methods of theLiverpool Tropical School of Medicine, will makehis memory blessed in Tahiti. One of the most striking coups dcsil on the islandis the great peak of Aorai, The Cloud of Heaven (the Aorangi of the Maoris), her towering anddelicately-rounded outline rising near 7,000 feetabove sea-level, but a little inferior in grandeur to
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Scenery and Topography 59 her loftier and more picturesque sister, Orohena.(The same name reappears in the Manua group,south-east of Samoa, where a lofty mountain iscalled Olosenga and the island after it.) The heightsof Aorai have now been conquered by the adventur-ous climber ; but Orohena remains still unsealed,rearing some 7,800 feet above the ocean her maidenobelisk in solitary grandeur, haughtily defiant ofconquest, a true daughter of the Titanic forces ofNature. There an arduous and delightful adventureawaits members of the Alpine Club. The Broom Road runs north-east and south-west,encircling the main body of the island. The formerbranch, an indifferent coach-road sadly out ofrepair, passes through Haapape, Papenoo and Hitiaa,the last-mentioned district showing on its seawardface a long stretch of dreary cliff and precipiceskirted by a road and sea-wall continually fallinginto ruin. At Taravao, on the neck of the isthmus,the branches unite. The scenery on the north-eastern sect

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