Part One
SOUTH SEA FOAM
PART ONE
CHAPTER I. SAMOA: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Author’s Heritage—Arrives at Samoa—Disillusioned—Illusive Romance—Golden-skinned Polynesian Maids—Meets great Heathen Philosophers—The Samoan Chief, O Le Tao.
I’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 mouth.