PART ONE
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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] |