A Yankee doctor in paradise

by S. M. Lambert

S. M. L.

Walnut Creek, California

CONTENTS

PART ONE

	[Foreword]	vii
[I]	Short Notice for a Long Chore	3
[II]	By the Ram’s Horn Route	10
[III]	Where the Dead Men Talk	19
[IV]	They Walk along Dreams	27
[V]	Just This Side of the Moon	37
[VI]	A Chapter on Contrasts	59
[VII]	Where New Guinea Was New	74
[VIII]	I Say It in Pidgin	90
[IX]	“Me Cuttim Wind, Me Cuttim Gut!”	95
[X]	King Solomon’s Gold	105
[XI]	“So You’ve Come to Fiji!”	113
[XII]	A Doctor Ex Officio	125
[XIII]	How the Answer Came	131
	PART TWO
[I]	Death and the Devil	147
[II]	Gilbert and Sullivan, 1924	164
[III]	A Little Kingdom and a Great Queen	181
[IV]	The Land of the Talking Men	202
[V]	Pig Aristocracy	222
[VI]	New Zealand’s Little Sister	249
[VII]	Half a Loaf and a Slice Off	270
	PART THREE
[I]	Old Brandy and New Eggs	279
[II]	Another Island Night’s Entertainment	284
[III]	Through the Solomons to Rennell	315
[IV]	The Fate of a Race	335
[V]	Such a Little School	357
[VI]	In Retrospect	377
	[Index]	387

PART ONE

CHAPTER I

SHORT NOTICE FOR A LONG CHORE

“Lambert, I’ve got a good one for you this time. I’m sending you to Papua.”

Dr. Victor G. Heiser, the Rockefeller Foundation’s famous Director of the East, made this announcement as if Papua were across the street.