WINE-DARK SEAS AND TROPIC SKIES

Lagoon Scene, Apia

WINE-DARK SEAS

AND

TROPIC SKIES

REMINISCENCES AND A ROMANCE OF

THE SOUTH SEAS

A. SAFRONI-MIDDLETON

❦

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

1918

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED

EDINBURGH

I dedicate this book to you,

To your wild songs and laughter,

And to the half-remembered light

Here in my dreams years after;

To you, the men who sailed with me

Beyond each far sky-line,

And my dead self—the boy I knew

In days of auld lang syne.