Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

It blew a gale all one day and night from the north, and at break of the second day, when I went down the rue de Rivoli from the Tiare Hotel to the quay, the lagoon was a wild s...

Rupert Brooke and I discuss Tahiti--We go to a wedding feast--How the cloth was spread--What we ate and drank--A Gargantuan feeder--Songs and dances of passion--The royal feast...

A drive to Papenoo--The chief of Papenoo--A dinner and poker on the beach--Incidents of the game--Breakfast the next morning--The chief tells his story--The journey back--The le...

The beach-combers of Papeete--The consuls tell their troubles--A bogus lord--The American boot-blacks--The cowboy in the hospital--Ormsby, the supercargo--The death of Tahia--Th...

Lovaina suggested, since I liked to be about the lagoon, that I move to the Annexe, a rooming-house she owned and conducted as an adjunct to the Tiare. I moved there, and regret...

About a mile from the beach was the reef, on which the breakers beat clamorously or almost inaudibly, depending on the wind and the faraway surge of the seas. The Passe of Rauti...

My life in the house of Tetuanui--Whence came the Polynesians--A migration from Malaysia--Their legends of the past--Condition of Tahiti when the white came--The great navigator...

The market in Papeete--Coffee at Shin Bung Lung's with a prince--Fish the chief item--Description of them--The vegetables and fruits--The fish strike--Rumors of an uprising--Kel...

The Tiare Hotel was the center of English-speaking life in Papeete. Almost all tourists stayed there, and most of the white residents other than the French took meals there. The...

The princess suggests a walk to the falls of Fautaua, where Loti went with Rarahu--We start in the morning--The suburbs of Papeete--The Pool of Loti--The birds, trees and plants...

In Papeete there were two social clubs, the Cercle Bougainville and the Cercle Militaire. Even in Papeete, which has not half as many people as work in a certain building in New...

Lovaina came out to Mataiea with the news and gossip of the capital. A wretched tragedy had shocked the community. Pepe, the woman of Tuatini, had buried her new-born infant ali...

The Noa-Noa came in after many days of suspense, during which rumors and reports of war grew into circumstantial statements of engagements at sea and battles on land. A mysterio...

Walking to the neighboring district of Pueu with Raiere to see the beauties of the shore, we met a cart coming toward Tautira, and one of the two natives in it attracted my inte...

The Arearea in the pavilion--Raw fish and baked feis--Llewellyn, the Master of the Revel; Kelly, the I.V.W., and His Himene--The Upaupahura--Landers and Mamoe prove experts--The...

The smell of the burning wood of the Umuti was hardly out of my nostrils before my day of leaving Tautira came. I had long wanted to visit the Marquesas Islands, and the first c...

What did Tahiti hold for me? I thought vaguely of its history. The world first knew its existence only about the time that the American colonies were trying to separate themselv...

Captain Cook barely escaped shipwreck here. The Bay of Tautira is marked on the French map, "Mouillage de Cook," the anchorage of Cook. That indomitable mariner risked his vesse...

Seeing the way the Lermontoffs lived, caused me to resolve that during the remainder of my stay in Tahiti I would go even farther from Papeete than Mataiea. They suggested Tauti...

Life in the country made me laugh at myself for having so long stayed in the capital. The fever of Papeete had long since cooled in my veins. A city man myself, I might have kno...

The warning gong had sent all but crew and passengers ashore, though our ship did not leave the dock. Her great bulk still lay along the piling, though the gangway was withdrawn...

Reading one day from Captain Cook's Voyages about a heathen temple not far from Mataiea which Cook had visited, I suggested to Brooke that we go to it. None of the Tetuanui youn...

Tahiti was a molten rock, fused in a subterranean furnace, and cast in some frightful throe of the cooling sphere, high up above the surface of the sea, the seething mass formin...

Gossip in Papeete--Moorea, a near-by island--A two-days' excursion there--Magnificent scenery from the sea--Island of fairy folk--Landing and preparation for the feast--The Firs...

T'yonni and Choti were the only aliens except myself in all Tautira, nor did others come during my stay. The steamships, spending only twenty-four hours in Papeete port every fo...

In the parc de Bougainville I sat down on a bench on which was an old European. He was reading a tattered number of "Simplicissimus," and held the paper close to his watery eyes...

The princess suggests a walk to the falls of Fautaua, where Loti went with Rarahu--We start in the morning--The suburbs of Papeete--The Pool of Loti--The birds, trees and plants...

A drive to Papenoo--The chief of Papenoo--A dinner and poker on the bench--Incidents of the game--Breakfast the next morning--The chief tells his story--The journey back--The le...

The market in Papeete--Coffee at Shin Bung Lung's with a prince--Fish the chief item--Description of them--The vegetables and fruits--The fish strike--Rumors of an uprising--Kel...

Rupert Brooke and I discuss Tahiti--We go to a wedding feast--How the cloth was spread--What we ate and drank--A Gargantuan feeder--Songs and dances of passion--The royal feast...

Gossip in Papeete--Moorea, a near-by island--A two-days' excursion there--Magnificent scenery from the sea--Island of fairy folk--Landing and preparation for the feast--The Firs...

The beach-combers of Papeete--The consuls tell their troubles--A bogus lord--The American boot-blacks--The cowboy in the hospital--Ormsby, the supercargo--The death of Tahia--Th...

The Arearea in the pavilion--Raw fish and baked feis--Llewellyn, the Master of the Revel; Kelly, the I. W. W. and his himene--The Upaupahura--Landers and Mamoe prove experts--Th...

My life in the house of Tetuanui--Whence came the Polynesians--A migration from Malaysia--Their legends of the past--Condition of Tahiti when the white came--The great navigator...