CHAPTER XXII

Monsieur l’Inspecteur des Etablissements Français de l’Océanie—How the school house was inspected—I receive my congé—The runaway pigs—Mademoiselle Narbonne goes with Lutz to Papeete to be married—Père Siméon, about whom Robert Louis Stevenson wrote[460]

CHAPTER XXIII

McHenry gets a caning—The fear of the dead—A visit to the grave of Mapuhi—En voyage[482]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Nature’s mirror showed him why he could not leave[Frontispiece]
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Map[7]
The atoll of Niau[16]
The anchorage at Tahauku. Atuona lies just around the first headland to the right[17]
A Paumotu atoll after a blow[32]
A squall approaching Anaa[33]
Picking up the atoll of Anaa from the deck of the schooner Flying Fish[48]
Canoes and cutters at atoll of Anaa, Paumotu Islands[49]
The road from the beach[64]
An American Josephite missionary and his wife, and their church[65]
Typical and primitive native hut, Paumotu Archipelago[80]
Copra drying[81]
Atoll of Hikuera after the cyclone[96]
The wrecked County of Roxburgh[97]
Mormon elders baptizing in the lagoon[112]
Over the reef in a canoe[113]
Robber-crab ascending tree at night. One of the few photographs taken of the marauder in action[128]
Where the Bounty was beached and burned[129]
The church on Pitcairn Island[144]
The shores of Pitcairn Island[145]
Spearing fish[160]
A canoe on the lagoon[161]
Ready for the fishing[161]
Spearing fish in the lagoon[176]
The Captain and two sailors of the El Dorado[177]
Beach dancers at Tahiti[192]
After the bath in the pool[193]
Old cocoanut-trees[208]
The dark valley of Taaoa[209]
Launch towing canoes to diving grounds in lagoon[224]
Divers voyaging in Paumotu atolls[225]
Ghost Girl[256]
A double canoe[257]
A young palm in Atuona[272]
Atuona valley and the peak of Temetiu[273]
Malicious Gossip, Le Brunnec, and his wife, At Peace[304]
Exploding Eggs and his chums packing copra[304]
Frederick O’Brien and Dr. Malcolm Douglas at home in Tahiti[305]
Some friends in my valley[320]
Wash-day in the stream by my cabin[321]
Te Ipu, an old Marquesan chief, showing tattooing[336]
The famous tattooed leg of Queen Vaikehu[337]
Tattooing at the present day[352]
Easter Islander in head-dress and with dancing-wand[353]
My tattooed Marquesan friend[353]
The author with his friends at council[368]
House of governor of Paumotu Islands. Atoll of Fakarava[369]
Nakohu, Exploding Eggs[384]
Haabuani, the sole sculptor of Hiva-Oa[385]
The coral road and the traders’ stores[416]
Scene on beach a few miles west of Papeete[417]
Tahiatini, Many Daughters, the little leper lass[432]
François Grelet, the Swiss, of Oomoa[433]
Brunneck, the boxer and diver[464]
A village maid in Tahiti[465]
A Samoan maiden of high caste[465]
Throwing spears at a cocoanut on a stake[480]
The raised-up atoll of Makatea[481]
Paumotuans on a heap of brain coral[496]
Did these two eat Chocolat?[496]
The stonehenge men in the South Seas[497]

ATOLLS OF THE SUN