Page:Scented isles and coral gardens- Torres Straits, German New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies, by C.D. Mackellar, 1912.pdf/265

how it seemed symbolical of its makers; where are they going, the people of this poor brown race against whom is the hand of the white man? Where are they going? Only passing on silently into the unknown? Would they be happy with us if we let them? Does never into their minds come the thought that if the strange, powerful white people would but seek to know and understand them, they need not be a lonely race who in impotent silence must see all pass from them?

These poor untaught savages see their lands and homes torn from them, and if in their untutored hearts they seek to defend or retaliate, they are mowed down by the hundred; is it an equal contest? “Where are you going, little ship; oh, where are you going?”