Ebook The Island of Stone Money

When I visited The Caroline Islands in 1903, there was but one small steamer, of a German trading company, which, about five times a year, links these little worlds with our great one, and the people which it brings from the uttermost horizon must seem to the natives quite as wonderful as beings from Mars might seem to us; we at least can discern the little point of light from which our Martian visitors might come, and can appreciate the size and distance Of another world, but to the man of Uap, whose whole world in length and breadth is but a day 's walk, the little steamboat emerges from an invisible spot, out of the very.