The pearl lagoon

CONTENTS

I. [The Coming of the Schooner]
II. [The Pearls of Iriatai]
III. [Aboard the Tara]
IV. [At Faatemu]
V. [Iriatai]
VI. [The End of the Shark—the Beginning of the Diving]
VII. [South Sea Fishermen]
VIII. [I Turn Pearl-Diver]
IX. [The Cave of the Shark-God]
X. [The Cholita Comes to Iriatai]
XI. [Piracy]
XII. [Boarders!]
XIII. [Tahiti]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ I had my first look at the helmsman] . . . . . . Frontispiece

[ "You're Charlie, eh?" he said, when he had looked me up and down with a smile that took me back to the evenings by our fireside, ten years before ]

[ The shark reared almost vertically beneath the swimmer and, opened his great jaws ]

[ Next moment the wave burst over the gunwale, and we were struggling in the sea ]

O Kahiki, land of the far-reaching ocean,
Land where Olopana dwelt!
Within is the land, outside is the sun!
Indistinct are the sun and the land when approaching.
Perhaps you have seen it?
I have seen it.
I have surely seen Kahiki.