The Marquees Last Episode

The National Broadcasting Company had its affiliated stations present the Pacific story of the Pacific. The drama of the millions of people who live around this great disease, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This is the documentary account of the situation in the Pacific, of the men in events, which are today influencing world affairs for generations to come. The Marquesas, balcony on the Pacific, from 2000 natives of the Marquesas Islands look on with indifference.

They represent an earliest stage of the white man's scramble for power in the Pacific, the white man's blackest page in the Pacific. The thousand and more of us pollination here in the Marquesas. There are about 2500 of us left.

They were a magnificent people. In the beauty of form they surpassed anything I had ever seen. I saw not a single instance of natural deformity among them. The men in almost every instance were six feet tall, and nearly every one of them might have been as sculptors' models.

Under the white man, 98% of the Marquesans have died. It was not entirely our fault. It was not entirely. The Spaniards were in the Marquesas nearly 200 years before us, and they butchered many of the Marquesas.

Just a minute. Who is speaking of what we did in these islands? I was speaking of the Spaniards, and you were speaking of me. I discovered the Marquesas. It was I who named them Vázislas Marquesas to Mendoza for the Lady of the Spanish by Soraya Peru.

But that was in 1595. Yes. And what natives we killed, we peeled in self-tite. That was Elvaro Mandana. Commander of the fleet of Dangatia, or Tada de Mandosa, the Spanish by Soraya Peru. And 180 years after he sailed away, the famous British navigator Captain Cook rediscovered the island.