...with three white men in her, knocking about ont of sight of land, is bound to make talk. Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft,"...crossed that region about the 8th of every month, regularly—nowhere near the island, though. Rigid, his voice hoarse, his heart thumping, his mind...

...with three white men in her, knocking about out of sight of land, is bound to make talk. Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft,"...crossed that region about the 8th of every month, regularly—nowhere near the island, though. Rigid, his voice hoarse, his heart thumping, his mind...

...with three white men in her, knocking about out of sight of land, is bound to make talk. Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft,"...disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible amis and needs. No. Native craft did not count, of course. It was an empty, solitary part of the sea,...

...ghostlike events a seeming guarantee against all consequences because anyhow it looked to these men like a "mere play of shadows. A play of shadows, the dominant...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs." The world of native savages was a perfect setting for men who had escaped the reality of civilization....

...that it reduces the "indigenous" population to a shadow: "Both these white men [Schomberg and Ricardo] looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs" (188). Since the cultural double of "native life" seems little threat to this community, we must ask...

...ghostlike events a seeming guarantee against all consequences because anyhow it looked to these men like a 'mere play of shadows. A play of shadows, the dominant...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs.' The world of native savages was a perfect setting for men who had escaped the reality of civilization."184...

...ghostlike events a seeming guarantee against all consequences because anyhow it looked to these men like a "mere play of shadows. A play of shadows, the dominant...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs." (The Origins, i po)20 These adventurers — superfluous, vicious, anonymous — still claimed a European...

...contemporary steel sculpture on the wall of the Rural Development Bank of Papua New Guinea at Waigani. Both these white men looked on native life as a mere...the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregard in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs ... a barrier against the march of...