LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Nature’s mirror showed him why he could not leave

[Frontispiece]

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Map	[7]
The atoll of Niau	[16]
The anchorage at Tahauku. Atuona lies just around the first headland to the right	[17]
A Paumotu atoll after a blow	[32]
A squall approaching Anaa	[33]
Picking up the atoll of Anaa from the deck of the schooner Flying Fish	[48]
Canoes and cutters at atoll of Anaa, Paumotu Islands	[49]
The road from the beach	[64]
An American Josephite missionary and his wife, and their church	[65]
Typical and primitive native hut, Paumotu Archipelago	[80]
Copra drying	[81]
Atoll of Hikuera after the cyclone	[96]
The wrecked County of Roxburgh	[97]
Mormon elders baptizing in the lagoon	[112]
Over the reef in a canoe	[113]
Robber-crab ascending tree at night. One of the few photographs taken of the marauder in action	[128]
Where the Bounty was beached and burned	[129]
The church on Pitcairn Island	[144]
The shores of Pitcairn Island	[145]
Spearing fish	[160]
A canoe on the lagoon	[161]
Ready for the fishing	[161]
Spearing fish in the lagoon	[176]
The Captain and two sailors of the El Dorado	[177]
Beach dancers at Tahiti	[192]
After the bath in the pool	[193]
Old cocoanut-trees	[208]
The dark valley of Taaoa	[209]
Launch towing canoes to diving grounds in lagoon	[224]
Divers voyaging in Paumotu atolls	[225]
Ghost Girl	[256]
A double canoe	[257]
A young palm in Atuona	[272]
Atuona valley and the peak of Temetiu	[273]
Malicious Gossip, Le Brunnec, and his wife, At Peace	[304]
Exploding Eggs and his chums packing copra	[304]
Frederick O’Brien and Dr. Malcolm Douglas at home in Tahiti	[305]
Some friends in my valley	[320]
Wash-day in the stream by my cabin	[321]
Te Ipu, an old Marquesan chief, showing tattooing	[336]
The famous tattooed leg of Queen Vaikehu	[337]
Tattooing at the present day	[352]
Easter Islander in head-dress and with dancing-wand	[353]
My tattooed Marquesan friend	[353]
The author with his friends at council	[368]
House of governor of Paumotu Islands. Atoll of Fakarava	[369]
Nakohu, Exploding Eggs	[384]
Haabuani, the sole sculptor of Hiva-Oa	[385]
The coral road and the traders’ stores	[416]
Scene on beach a few miles west of Papeete	[417]
Tahiatini, Many Daughters, the little leper lass	[432]
François Grelet, the Swiss, of Oomoa	[433]
Brunneck, the boxer and diver	[464]
A village maid in Tahiti	[465]
A Samoan maiden of high caste	[465]
Throwing spears at a cocoanut on a stake	[480]
The raised-up atoll of Makatea	[481]
Paumotuans on a heap of brain coral	[496]
Did these two eat Chocolat?	[496]
The stonehenge men in the South Seas	[497]

ATOLLS OF THE SUN