UNABLE TO SHOUT.
The latest visitors to Tristan (la Ounlia have made the piquant discovery that "the lack of necessity ever to raise their voices has rendered Tristanites physically incapable of shouting." Why they should not have to raise their voices is left unexplained, but it may not be altogether a misfortune that they are unable to shout: it may even be taken as a tribute to their general good conduct, for there is an old proverb which says. "Those who do nothing generally take to shouting." The Tristanites are an industrious people, and are not likely to take to shouting, even if they could, for lack of something to do. There is another island that once—and even till recently—sheltered a race of accomplished sliouters. In Crete there are shepherds with voices so powerful and resonant that they are able, it is said, to carry on a conversation at a distance of a mile and a half.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 6
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