Numerous Illustrations

LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE, Ltd.
CLIFFORD'S INN.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Introduction]ix
CHAPTER
I[On the Trail of Adventure]1
II[The Building of the "Snark"]13
III[On the High Seas]49
IV[A Pacific Paradise]84
V[Molokai, the Leper Island]117
VI[The Long Traverse]137
VII[In the Marquesas]158
VIII[The Society Islands]180
IX[Some South Sea Royalty]200
X[The Samoan Group]242
XI[Lost in the Fiji Islands]260
XII[South Sea Cannibals]268
XIII[Oceanic Cruising]309
XIV[The End of the Voyage]334
[Postscript]368

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Martin Johnson and a Pathe motion-picture operator on a hunt in the Solomons]Frontispiece
FACING
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[Snark at Honolulu]8
[Complement of the Snark in Solomon Islands]8
[A Solomon Island Army]20
[On the Ballassona River, Solomon Group]32
[A Te Motu Round House, Santa Cruz Group]44
["War and Peace"—Foate Cannibals in Mission Boat. Artificial Islands off Malaita, Solomon Group]56
[War Canoes in Their Shelter]68
[Manufactured Islet, with Shrine of a Native Chief—Solomon Group]80
[A Man of Roas. Solomon Group, Island of Malaita]92
[Chief of Florida Island, Solomon Group]92
[Group of Roas Women, Solomon Islands]100
[A Mission School, teacher and members of class]112
[Molokai, the Leper Settlement, Hawaiian Islands]122
[Leper band at Molokai, the leper island of the Hawaiian Group]132
[Santa Cruz natives in catamaran canoes]146
[Canoe House in Solomon Islands]154
[Marquesas Islanders]166
[The Old Home of Robert Louis Stevenson, Marquesas Islands]176
[The Price of a Wife—feather money]184
[A Study in Ornaments]196
[Mission Schooner trading among the Islands]210
[The Haunt of the Crocodile, Solomon Islands]224
[Houses on Outrigger Canoes, Solomon Islands]238
[Types of Solomon Islanders]246
[At Otivi Village, Santa Cruz Group]256
[The Landing Place at Namu, Santa Cruz Group]264
[Mrs. Godden and her School people, New Hebrides Islands]278
[Cannibal Village, Foate, Solomon Group]292
[Artificial Island, off Malaita, Solomon Group]312
["Penduffryn," the largest cocoanut plantation in the world. Island of Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands]322
[Making copra at "Penduffryn," Solomon Islands]330
[A Florida canoe—Solomons]342
[Trading station, Langakauld-Ugi—Solomons]354

INTRODUCTION

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Accounts of dare-devil exploits have always been read with deep interest. One of the salient features of human nature is curiosity, a desire to know what is being said and done outside the narrow limits of one's individual experience, or, in other words, to learn the modes of life of persons whose environment and problems are different from one's own environment and problems. To this natural curiosity, the book of travel is particularly gratifying.