In the Track of the Trades The Account of a Fourteen Thousand Mile Yachting Cruise to the Hawaiis, Marquesas, Societies, Samoas and Fijis

The French have never actually prohibited the carrying of arms in the Marquesas, as have the British in the Solomons; but the possession and use of guns has been so hedged about...

With 2,000 miles of salt water stretching between its windward shores and the western coast of North America, with twice that distance separating it from Asia, and with more or...

Before leaving Nukahiva the four of us from the _Lurline_, under the guidance of our good friend McGrath, journeyed on pony-back across the island to visit Queen Mareu of Hatihe...

The Weather Bureau, which for several weeks had been issuing bulletins of the "Possibly Showers" order, came out unequivocally with "Rain" on the morning of February 4th, and th...

Generally speaking, the islands, both coral and volcanic, lying east of the 180th Meridian in the Pacific are almost perfectly healthy, while those to the west of it incline to...

We had heard of the Honourable "Slope" Carew--pearler, "black-birder," yachtsman and scion of a noble British family--at every port we had touched in the South Pacific, but it w...

The Tahitian word for song, _himine_, is a Kanakazation of the English word hymn. Before the days of the missions there must have been some other term, for singing was quite as...

The principal difference between the dance in Samoa and in the other island groups of the South Pacific is that in the former it is an institution and in the latter--in recent t...

In the settlement of the Samoan imbroglio in the late nineties by the partition of the group between Germany and the United States--Great Britain, the third party to the controv...

It is a strange anomaly that the Marquesan, by long odds the fastest disappearing of the Polynesian races, is made up of individuals of incomparably finer physique than those of...

Situated well around on the leeward side of the island of Tahiti, with the great 8000-foot peak of Orohena cutting off all but stray gusts of the Trade wind, Papeete harbour is...

The island of Tahiti has been the best known, or rather the most talked-about, point in the South Pacific since those latitudes were added to the mapped sections of the world. F...

On the 9th of June we sailed from Pago Pago for Apia, planning to return at the end of a week in order to be present at an official flag-raising which our patriotic friend, Chie...

The captain of Fauga-sa drank deep from his _epu_ of _kava_, tossed the heel-taps over his shoulder as etiquette required, and sent the shining coconut cup spinning back across...

"Man-eaters on land, man-eaters in the water; for God's sake steer clear of the Fijis!" was the way in which trading captains of forty years ago epitomized their warnings to tho...

The French islands of the South Pacific perform satisfactorily the regulation duty of all the other of that republic's tropical colonies--that of furnishing a retreat for a gove...

We sailed from Pago Pago for Fiji on the afternoon of June 18th. Just as the anchor had been catted and the yacht was filling away on her first tack a madly paddled canoe shot a...

The two weeks spent ashore during _Lurline's_ return visit to Honolulu were a welcome respite from the four months of unbroken life on shipboard that had preceded them. The abse...

At five o'clock in the afternoon of the 2nd of July we weighed anchor and slipped from the quietness of Suva harbour out into a roystering east wind that was playing all manner...

The decennial Passion Play at Oberammergau is, perhaps, the most written and talked about theatrical performance that has ever been staged, and even the annual pageants put on d...

The Society Islands took their name from the Royal Geographical Society, which sent an expedition there in 1868 to observe the transit of Venus, not, as might be supposed, from...