Chapter 3

The breeze from the enbalmèd land Blows sudden toward the shore, And claps my cottage door. I hear the signal, Lord—I understand. The night at Thy command Comes. I will eat and sleep and will not question more.

_Vailima_.

Footnotes

{44} This is the same Princess Moë whose charms of person and disposition have been recorded by the late Lord Pembroke in _South Sea Bubbles_, and by M. Pierre Loti in the _Mariage de Loti_.

{45} The yacht _Casco_ had been so called by the people of Fakarava in the Paumotus.