Category: Adventure
The _Willi-Waw_ lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more than a hundred yards across to the white beach of pounded coral sand, was of glass-like smoothness. Na...
The _Willi-Waw_ lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more th...
2. Chapter 2Quick eye that he had for the promise of adventure, prepared always for the unexpected to leap out at him from behind the nearest cocoanut tree, nevertheless David Grief receive...
3. Chapter 3Of his many schooners, ketches and cutters that nosed about among the coral isles of the South Seas, David Grief loved most the _Rattler_--a yacht-like schooner of ninety tons w...
4. Chapter 4“I'm almost afraid to take you in to New Gibbon,” David Grief said. “It wasn't until you and the British gave me a free hand and let the place alone that any results were accomp...
5. Chapter 5“Leu-Leu Atoll is sunk, Mr. Snow,” he said to the anxious-faced young mate. “If there is anything in navigation, the atoll is surely under the sea, for we've sailed clear over i...
6. Chapter 6At Goboto the traders come off their schooners and the planters drift in from far, wild coasts, and one and all they assume shoes, white duck trousers, and various other appeara...
7. Chapter 7It was the island of Fitu-Iva--the last independent Polynesian stronghold in the South Seas. Three factors conduced to Fitu-Iva's independence. The first and second were its iso...
8. Chapter 8The Kanaka helmsman put the wheel down, and the _Malahini_ slipped into the eye of the wind and righted to an even keel. Her head-sails emptied, there was a rat-tat of reef-poin...