Category: Short Stories
In the great _bure_ of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. The lying-places filled three sides of the house--mats spread upon grass four feet wide,--and between each lying-place was a narrow strip of bare earth sprinkled with wood-ashes, on which three logs, nose to nose, were...
Did they weep? No; they dared not weep, for Butho, the fearless, who led us, told them that she who first wept aloud should die; and thereafter, when Ina, the daughter of Naikel...
13. Part 13“Wish he’d look sharp about it,” growled another; “we don’t want chaps seein’ snakes aboard _that_ craft.” And he pointed to the boat. Allen had been the first to notice Benion’...
14. Part 14Far up the great river there once dwelt three clans in brotherly love, planting on the same lands, and giving their women to one another in marriage. Brothers in arms they were,...
6. Part 6It seemed a small matter to Vere whether Nambuto came back or not. He could not realise that this girl by his side, who thought and spoke so rationally, was still one of her own...
16. Part 16When they returned to Bau, Savage took the thing to his house, and shut the doorway that no one might see. “And presently he bade Naulivou summon all the elders of Bau to the _r...
15. Part 15So the chiefs of Rara sent to Tovutovu, saying, “Help us to rebuild our great _bure_, for the post is rotten. We have seen a _vesi_-tree seven fathoms long, and of great girth,...
11. Part 11“Then the god gathered brushwood together, and piled it with stones in a little hollow, and made fire, and lighted it, and they sat down to wait until the stones grew hot. And w...
9. Part 9Far from the haunts of men there is a place where none dare to come alone. The land sloping up from Neiafu is broken here in a great precipice, against whose feet the mighty oce...
4. Part 4“Dis feller no lie. He makim swear along Kurân, he too much ’fraid;” and he glared at the defendant triumphantly as who should say, “You are convicted, and mine is the hand that...
5. Part 5Next morning he received a visit of ceremony. His door was darkened, there was a whispering and a rustling outside, and then Raluve came in, shyly followed by two attendants of...
7. Part 7Arrived on the river-bank, Erirala is commanded to advance no farther, for it is not permitted the common mortal to witness the mysteries of the intercourse between the gods and...
8. Part 8He seized her roughly by the wrist and tried to force the foul-smelling bottle between her lips. Life had never seemed so sweet to Juliet as at that moment. If Romeo chose to di...
12. Part 12Benion and Allen lost no time in going on shore. They stepped from the boat into a crowd of the hangers-on of the gold-field,--surely the strangest seething of humanity that the...
3. Part 3Early next morning a messenger came to the door of our hut to ask if we would see the Buli’s face. Followed by several of my men carrying the funeral gifts, I climbed to a small...
2. Part 2Our discomfiture is best covered by attention to business. Two more cases of larceny are heard and disposed of, and now two ancient dames, clad in borrowed plumes, consisting of...
1. Part 1In the great _bure_ of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. The lying-places filled three sides of the house--mats spread upon grass four feet wide,--and between each lying-place...
17. Part 17Meanwhile the chiefs furiously incited their men to capture the hill with a rush. There were four muskets between the three defenders. Wilson, being a bad shot, was kept loading...