BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK

CONTENTS

BOOK I
I[The Canoe Builder]
II[The Revolt of the Old Men]
III[The Little Ships]
IV[The Gates of Morning]
V[Civilization Peeps in]
VI[The Men of the “Kermadec”]
VII[The Pearl]
VIII[The Mind of Sru]
IX[Cashi]
X[The High Island]
XI[The Tragedy]
XII[They Make South]
XIII[South]
BOOK II
I[The Maid of Aioma]
II[War]
III[The Return to the “Kermadec”]
IV[The Mind of Kanoa and the Rising Moon]
V[Night, Death and Passion]
VI[Morning]
VII[The Vision]
VIII[The Cassi Flowers]
IX[Vengeance]
BOOK III
I[Le Moan Will Know]
II[The Three Great Waves]
III[The Second Apparition]
IV[What Has Happened to the Reef?]
V[Mainsail Haul]
VI[Voices of the Sea and Sky]
VII[Islands at War—the Open Sea]
VIII[We Shall not See Marua Again]
BOOK IV
I[E Haya]
II[Aioma Curses the Wind]
III[He Has Turned His Face from the Sun]
IV[What Happened to Rantan]
V[What Happened to Rantan (continued)]
VI[What Happened to Rantan (continued)]
VII[The Battle and the Victory]
VIII[What Happened to Rantan (conclusion)]
IX[The Green Ship]
X[Aripa! Aripa!]
XI[The Green Sickness]
XII[The Release of Le Moan]

“The Gates of Morning”

BOOK I

CHAPTER I—THE CANOE BUILDER

Dick standing on a ledge of coral cast his eyes to the South.

Behind him the breakers of the outer sea thundered and the spindrift scattered on the wind; before him stretched an ocean calm as a lake, infinite, blue, and flown about by the fishing gulls—the lagoon of Karolin.

Clipped by its forty-mile ring of coral this great pond was a sea in itself, a sea of storm in heavy winds, a lake of azure, in light airs—and it was his—he who had landed here only yesterday.

Women, children, youths, all the tribe to be seen busy along the beach in the blazing sun, fishing with nets, playing their games or working on the paraka patches, all were his people. His were the canoes drawn up on the sand and his the empty houses where the war canoes had once rested on their rollers.