ILLUSTRATIONS
[A quiet inlet on the coast of Samoa]
Frontispiece
PAGE
[Lurline in drydock before sailing]
8
["The Commodore laboriously squinted out his first sights"]
9
[Waiohae Beach, Island of Hawaii]
20
["All of the images were covered with moss"]
62
["A hardened old offender who preferred white man to native
meat"]
63
[The best surviving example of Marquesan tattooing]
68
[ "Into it were thrown the bones of the victims after the feast
was over"]
69
["The part of Christ is taken by a native called Lurau"]
102
[Marquesan mother and child]
103
["Pontius Pilate has been played for twenty years by an old
chief—a quondam cannibal"]
108
["Just in time to respond to his 'cue' in the John the Baptist
tableau"]
109
["Hatiheu, the most sublime combination of mountain, vale and
sea that my eyes have ever rested on"]
112
[A Marquesan fisherman of Hatiheu]
113
[Native woman washing on the beach, Tahiti]
158
[A Mission bathing suit. Before the bath—and after]
159
[The inevitable end of every South Sea trading schooner]
200
[Chief Tufeli in the uniform of a sergeant of Fita-fitas]
215
[Faa-oo-pea, chieftainess of Pago Pago, making kava]
222
[Seuka, taupo of Pago Pago, illustrating a movement in the Siva]
223
[A Samoan house in the course of construction]
226
["Chief Tufeli came over for the express purpose of buying
the yacht"]
227
["Chief Mauga squared away to face the bowling of Chief Malatoba"]
236
[To-a, who made the best score for Pago Pago, facing the bowler]
237
["Whirling and yelling like dervishes they made a circuit of the
ground"]
244
["A sinewy brown figure starts clambering up the tree"]
245
[Lurline at anchor in Bay of Apia, Samoa]
250
["The London Missionary Society steamer, John Williams, lay
near us"]
251
[Maid of honour to the Taupo of Apia]
258
[The sitting Sivas are essentially dances of the arms]
274
["Never were seen such arms as in Samoa"]
275
[Fanua, who danced the swimming Siva by the light of the phosphorescent
waves]
280
[Forty years ago the Fijis were in a complete state of savagery]
298
[A Fijian head hunting canoe]
299
["Lurline's cutter finished a poor second"]
304
["Thakambau's great war canoe, over a hundred feet in length,
formerly launched over human bodies"]
305
[Shark on the beach at Mbau]
324
[Weaving the walls of a Fijian house]
342
[Interior of a Fijian house, showing how it is bound together
with coco fibre]
343
[Untying a reef in the mainsail]
363