In the Strange South Seas

_How not to see the Islands--Lonely Niué--A Heathen Quarantine Board--The King and the Parliament--The Great Question of Gifts--Is it Chief-like?--The New Woman in Niué--Devil-f...

_Stevenson’s Samoa--What happened when it rained--Life in a Native Village--The Albino Chief--A Samoan “Bee”--The Tyranny of Time--Fishing at Midnight--Throwing the Presents--My...

MAUKE, Manuwai, and Takutea still remained to be seen, before the _Duchess_ could spread her wings for Raratonga again. We sailed from one to another in the course of a few days...

_The Last of the Island Kingdoms--Fashions in Nukualofa--The King who was shy--His Majesty’s Love Story--Who got the Wedding-Cake?--The Chancellor goes to Jail--Bungalow Houseke...

_The History of Tahiti--Drink and the Native--In the Old Wild Days--The Simple and the Civilised Life--What an Island Town is like--The Lotos Eaters--Cocoanuts and Courtesy--A F...

_Pearl-fishing at Penrhyn--The Beautiful Golden-Edge--Perils of the Pearl Diver--A Fight for Life--Visit to a Leper Island--A God-forsaken Place--How they kept the Corpses--The...

_The Schooner at last--White Wings versus Black Funnels--Not according to Clark Russell--The Marvellous White Woman--The Song of the Surf--Why not?--Delightful Aitutaki--Into an...

_A Life on the Ocean Wave--Where They kept the Dynamite--How far from an Iced Drink?--The Peacefulness of a Pacific Calm--A Golden Dust Heap--Among the Rookeries--Sailing on the...

_Where are the Six Thousand?--Calling on the Queen--A Victoria of the Pacific--The Prince sleeps softly--The Mystical Power of the Mana--How Islanders can die--A Depressing Pala...

_Southward to New Zealand--Into the Hot-Water Country--Coaching Days come back--The Early Victorian Inn--The Fire and Snow of Ruapehu--A Hotel run wild--Hot Lakes and Steaming R...

Close your eyelids, and picture to yourself a South Sea Island, of the kind that you used to imagine on holiday afternoons long ago, when you wandered off down to the shore alon...

_From Heaven to Hades--Gay Rotorua--Where One lives on a Pie crust--The Birth of a River--Horrible Tikitere--In the Track of the Great Eruption--Where are the Pink and White Ter...

_Jumping a Coral Reef--The Great Wall of the Makatea--Makaia’s Wonderful Staircases--A Clothing Club of the Pacific--Cool Costumes in Atiu--The Lands that lie waste--Mystery of...

_The Simple Life in the South Seas--Servant Problems again--Foods and Fruits of the Country--The Tree that digests--Home-made Vanilla--The Invaluable Lime--How to cook a Turtle-...

STEAMER day in Raratonga, as in all the islands that rejoice in the privilege of a regular steamer service, is beyond comparison the event of the month. Almost before dawn on th...

LIKE an idle messenger-boy, Fate takes a long while about her rounds, but she will get through with them and deliver all her parcels, if you give her time enough.