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CHAPTER I. SAMOA: FIRST IMPRESSIONS[23]

Author’s Heritage—Arrives at Samoa—Disillusioned—Illusive Romance—Golden-skinned Polynesian Maids—Meets great Heathen Philosophers—The Samoan Chief, O Le Tao

CHAPTER II. TROUBADOURING IN TAHITI[49]

I ship with a genuine Old-time Crew—Poetic Nightmares—Tattooed Manuscripts of the Seas!—I learn the Art of Forcible Expression—Tar-pots—The Storm—Washed Overboard—Papeete—Pokara—How the first Coco-nuts came—Star Myths

CHAPTER III. POKARA’S STORY[92]

Pokara tells me how the first Idol came to be Worshipped

CHAPTER IV. I MEET ALOA[100]

The Hut in the Mountains—A Modern Fairy—The Escape—Love’s Hospitality—The Stranger from the Infinite Seas!

CHAPTER V. FAE FAE[106]