STEVENSON

VOLUME EIGHTEEN
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND
WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL
AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM
HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN
AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

IN THE SOUTH SEAS

PAGE
Editorial Note[ix]
PART I.—THE MARQUESAS
CHAPTER
I.An Island Landfall[5]
II.Making Friends[12]
III.The Maroon[21]
IV.Death[28]
V.Depopulation[36]
VI.Chiefs and Tapus[44]
VII.Hatiheu[53]
VIII.The Port of Entry[61]
IX.The House of Temoana[69]
X.A Portrait and a Story[77]
XI.Long-Pig—a Cannibal High Place[85]
XII.The Story of a Plantation[95]
XIII.Characters[105]
XIV.In a Cannibal Valley[112]
XV.The Two Chiefs of Atuona[119]
PART II.—THE PAUMOTUS
I.The Dangerous Archipelago—Atolls at a Distance[129]
II.Fakarava: an Atoll at Hand[137]
III.A House To Let in a Low Island[146]
IV.Traits and Sects in the Paumotus[155]
V.A Paumotuan Funeral[165]
VI.Graveyard Stories[170]
PART III.—THE EIGHT ISLANDS
I.The Kona Coast[187]
II.A Ride in the Forest[197]
III.The City of Refuge[203]
IV.Kaahumanu[209]
V.The Lepers of Kona[215]
PART IV.—THE GILBERTS
I.Butaritari[223]
II.The Four Brothers[229]
III.Around Our House[237]
IV.A Tale of a Tapu[247]
V.A Tale of a Tapu (continued)[255]
VI.The Five Days’ Festival[265]
VII.Husband and Wife[278]
PART V.—THE GILBERTS—APEMAMA
I.The King of Apemama: the Royal Trader[289]
II.The King of Apemama: Foundation Of Equator Town[298]
III.The King of Apemama: the Palace of Many Women[306]
IV.The King of Apemama: Equator Town And the Palace[313]
V.King and Commons[321]
VI.The King of Apemama: Devil-work[330]
VII.The King of Apemama[342]
LETTERS FROM SAMOA[351]

EDITORIAL NOTE