PART TWO

CHAPTER X. O LE LANGI THE PAGAN POET[203]

A Pagan Poet—Influence of Byron and Keats—Star-myths Enchanted Crab

CHAPTER XI. R. L. S. IN SAMOA[214]

O Le Langi’s Influence—Heathen Magic—Poetic Aspirations—Ramao and Essimao-Samoan Types—Robert Louis Stevenson and the “Beautiful White Woman”—O Le Langi becomes a Part of the Forest—“Here lies O Le Langi”—A Great Truth

CHAPTER XII. A MOHAMMEDAN BANQUET[238]

A Child of American Democracy—Rajah Barab—Barbarossa—Brown-Slave Traffic Methods—Motavia’s Grave—The Magic Casement—The Splendour of Rose-coloured Spectacles—Mohammedanistic Desires—Giovanni’s Love Affairs—Exit Barab

CHAPTER XIII. AN OLD MARQUESAN QUEEN[254]

In Tai-o-hae—I come across a widowed Marquesan Queen—Am received with Dignity—The Artistic Tattoo on Loi Vakamoa’s Royal Person—The Queen tells how she was married to a certain Martin Smith of New South Wales—An aged Queen’s Vanity—A Heathen Necropolis

CHAPTER XIV. TISSEMOA AND THE CUTTLE-FISH[265]