Category: Adventure
I ship with a genuine Old-time Crew—Poetic Nightmares—Tattooed Manuscripts of the Seas!—I learn the Art of Forcible Expression—Tar-pots—The Storm—Washed Overboard—Papeete—Pokara—How the first Coco-nuts came—Star Myths
I ship with a genuine Old-time Crew—Poetic Nightmares—Tattooed Manuscripts of the Seas!—I learn the Art of Forcible Expression—Tar-pots—The Storm—Washed Overboard—Papeete—Pokara...
3. CHAPTER III. POKARA’S STORY 924. CHAPTER IV. I MEET ALOA 1005. CHAPTER V. FAE FAE 1066. CHAPTER VI. ABDUCTION OF A PRINCESS 1157. CHAPTER VII. THE HEATHEN’S GARDEN OF EDEN 144Tangalora the Samoan Scribe—Where the Gods and Goddesses first met in Council—The Materials of which the first Mortal Children were Fashioned—The first Wondering Men—The first W...
8. CHAPTER VIII. IN OLD FIJI 158A Heathen Monastery—A Scene of Primitive Heathenism—My unsolicited Professional Engagement—I imbibe Kava—I am made “Taboo”—Things that I may not Confess—My Escape—Fanga Loma—A N...
9. CHAPTER IX. KASAWAYO AND THE SERPENT 17510. CHAPTER X. O LE LANGI THE PAGAN POET 20311. CHAPTER XI. R. L. S. IN SAMOA 214O Le Langi’s Influence—Heathen Magic—Poetic Aspirations—Ramao and Essimao-Samoan Types—Robert Louis Stevenson and the “Beautiful White Woman”—O Le Langi becomes a Part of the Fo...
12. CHAPTER XII. A MOHAMMEDAN BANQUET 23813. CHAPTER XIII. AN OLD MARQUESAN QUEEN 254In Tai-o-hae—I come across a widowed Marquesan Queen—Am received with Dignity—The Artistic Tattoo on Loi Vakamoa’s Royal Person—The Queen tells how she was married to a certain...
14. CHAPTER XIV. TISSEMOA AND THE CUTTLE-FISH 26515. CHAPTER XV. CHARITY ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTH SEAS 27316. CHAPTER XVI. YORAKA’S DAUGHTER 28717. CHAPTER XVII. SOOGY, CHILD OF POETRY 31818. CHAPTER XVIII. RETROSPECT 326Come! follow me o’er the sun-bleached sands by the seas where the small grog-shanty stands On the Wallaby track to Falaboo. Come! drink of the sunsets, rich old wine from the wa...
19. CHAPTER I. SAMOA: FIRST IMPRESSIONSI’d fiddled in Australia, lived on cheek, Cursed all the gold-fields ever found down South, Lived with mosquitoes down by Bummer’s Creek— To say the least, I’d felt down in the...
20. CHAPTER II. TROUBADOURING IN TAHITII ship with a genuine Old-time Crew—Poetic Nightmares—Tattooed Manuscripts of the Seas!—I learn the Art of Forcible Expression—Tar-pots—The Storm—Washed Overboard—Papeete—Pokara...
21. CHAPTER III. POKARA’S STORYWHEN I opened my eyes, the morning parrots were wheeling away in screaming droves over the slopes. Pokara was already awake and busy cooking yams for our breakfast on a little f...
22. CHAPTER IV. I MEET ALOAIN this chapter I will tell a true fairy story that is directly connected with Pokara’s and my own experiences. Indeed, I imagine it to be one of the most realistic fairy-tales...
23. CHAPTER V. FAE FAEPONDERING over my experiences of idol-worship and my further adventures in Tahiti, the incidents connected with the whole matter seem sufficiently interesting for me to give the...
24. CHAPTER VI. ABDUCTION OF A PRINCESSI HAD just returned from an engagement where I had performed violin solos at the French Presidency concert, when I met O’Hara again. I was sitting in the wooden café at Selao at...
25. CHAPTER VII. THE HEATHEN’S GARDEN OF EDENTangalora the Samoan Scribe—Where the Gods and Goddesses first met in Council—The Materials of which the first Mortal Children were Fashioned—The first Wondering Men—The first W...
26. CHAPTER VIII. IN OLD FIJIA Heathen Monastery—A scene of Primitive Heathenism—My unsolicited Professional Engagement—I imbibe Kava—I am made “Taboo”—Things that I may not Confess—My escape—Fanga Loma—A N...
27. CHAPTER IX. KASAWAYO AND THE SERPENTAGES ago a goddess of shadowland sickened of the sacred halls of the passionless gods. One day a great desire to be a mortal entered her heart, for she had once been a mortal he...
28. CHAPTER X. O LE LANGI THE PAGAN POETThe imaged stars the oceans knew a million years ago Are dancing in the eyes of all the cities that I know! The man who sails to heathenland to preach the newest creed Sees in t...
29. CHAPTER XI. R. L. S. IN SAMOAO Le Langi’s Influence—Heathen Magic—Poetic Aspirations—Ramao and Essimao-Samoan Types—Robert Louis Stevenson and the “Beautiful White Woman”—O Le Langi becomes a Part of the Fo...
30. CHAPTER XII. A MOHAMMEDAN BANQUETI WAS more than pleased to make the acquaintance of Giovonni as I wandered about Apia. This newfound comrade was a clever artist on the guitar, and our kindred tastes and mutual...
31. CHAPTER XIII. AN OLD MARQUESAN QUEENIn Tai-o-hae—I come across a Widowed Marquesan Queen—Am received with Dignity—The Artistic Tattoo on Loi Vakamoa’s Royal Person—The Queen tells how she was married to a certain...
32. CHAPTER XIV. TISSEMAO AND THE CUTTLE-FISHTHE pagan city of Nuka Hiva was silent. The tired sentinel stars were creeping homeward. Dawn had already arisen from her silvery couch, her soft robe, cut out of the warm weste...
33. CHAPTER XV. CHARITY ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTH SEASI WAS hanging by one foot from a mystical cloud, lesiurely travelling across the tropic sky, then I lost my grip and fell! I distinctly recall the awful sensation of that noisel...
34. CHAPTER XVI. YORAKA’S DAUGHTERFIRST I must state that G—— was a casual member of the Charity Organization, an Englishman, and, from the general run of his conversation and manner, gave one the impression tha...
35. CHAPTER XVII. SOOGY, CHILD OF POETRYHAD it not been for men like D—— and many other striking personalities who enlivened the Organization, we should have cleared out of it sooner than we did. We were considerably...
36. CHAPTER XVIII. RETROSPECTTHE perspective of things as seen after a lapse of years seems gifted with a visionary light that has no relation to the normal outlook of the intellect. The most commonplace ob...