Impressionistic Scene in Nuka Hiva—Tissemao listens to the Luring Voice of a Cuttle-fish—The Love-stricken Cuttle-fish—When Crabs are Brave

CHAPTER XV. CHARITY ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTH SEAS[273]

I fall from Space—Court Violinist—Arrive in Fiji—With the Great Missing

CHAPTER XVI. YORAKA’S DAUGHTER[287]

The Wild White Girl—The Wagner of Storms—A Pagan Citadel—Pagan Democracy—Ye Old Britisher—A Battle in the Dark

CHAPTER XVII. SOOGY, CHILD OF POETRY[318]

Poetry’s Legitimate Child—Music’s Fairyland—A Civilized Old Man of the Sea—A Clerical Hat is the Symbol of Modern Religion

CHAPTER XVIII. RETROSPECT[326]

The Modern Old Man of the Sea—Fifty Pounds!—A Human Octopus—Adrift at Sea—Sorrow—Saved—In Tonga—Our Old Man’s last Hiding-place—Retrospect