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I SAN PEDRO TO HILO AND HONOLULU 1
II HONOLULU TO TAIO-HAIE 26
V THE PASSION PLAY AT UAHUKA 99
VI TAIO-HAIE TO PAPEETE 110
X BY THE ABSINTHE ROUTE 182
XX SUVA TO HONOLULU 357
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"The Commodore laboriously squinted out his first sights" 9
"Full-and-by" 9
Waiohae Beach, Island of Hawaii 20
Hula dancer with Eukalele 21
"All of the images were covered with moss" 62
"A hardened old offender who preferred white man to native meat" 63
The best surviving example of Marquesan tattooing 68
"Into it were thrown the bones of the victims after the feast was over" 69
"The part of Christ is taken by a native called Lurau" 102
Marquesan mother and child 103
"Pontius Pilate has been played for twenty years by an old chief--a quondam cannibal" 108
"Just in time to respond to his 'cue' in the John the Baptist tableau" 109
"Hatiheu, the most sublime combination of mountain, vale and sea that my eyes have ever rested on" 112
A Marquesan fisherman of Hatiheu 113
Native woman washing on the beach, Tahiti 158
A Mission bathing suit. Before the bath--and after 159
The inevitable end of every South Sea trading schooner 200
A Tahitian couple 201
"A naval station at Pago Pago has placed the United States, strategically, in the strongest position in western Polynesia" 214
A Samoan house in the course of construction 226
"Chief Tufeli came over for the express purpose of buying the yacht" 227
"Chief Mauga squared away to face the bowling of Chief Malatoba" 236
To-a, who made the best score for Pago Pago, facing the bowler 237
"Whirling and yelling like dervishes they made a circuit of the ground" 244
"A sinewy brown figure starts clambering up the tree" 245
A Samoan sunset 259
"Never were seen such arms as in Samoa" 275
Dancer with head knife 281
Forty years ago the Fijis were in a complete state of savagery 298
A Fijian head hunting canoe 299
"Thakambau's great war canoe, over a hundred feet in length, formerly launched over human bodies" 305
Shark on the beach at Mbau 324
Fijian boys boxing 325
Weaving the walls of a Fijian house 342
Interior of a Fijian house, showing how it is bound together with coco fibre 343
A Fijian warrior 362
Reefing the mainsail 363
Untying a reef in the mainsail 363
IN THE TRACKS OF THE TRADES
IN THE TRACKS OF THE TRADES
SAN PEDRO TO HILO AND HONOLULU
Personal good-byes began at the Pasadena station and continued down through Los Angeles to the San Pedro quay. From there, out through the inner harbour, bon voyages became general, and from the engineer of the government dredge, who blew his whistle off with the force of his farewell toots, to the deck hand on a collier who, in lieu of a handkerchief, waved the shirt he was washing, everybody took a hand in the parting demonstration.
Just before the sailing hour arrived presentation was made to the Commodore of a large silver loving cup, and this being filled, each visitor, ere he stepped down the gangway, proposed some appropriate toast and drank to a prosperous voyage and safe return.
At four o'clock Point Firmin Light, distant five miles, bore N.W. by W., and at the same hour the barometer, which had risen rapidly since noon, registered 30.40, about the normal for the southern California coast. The gentle southerly breeze cleared the western sky toward evening and a warm hued sunset blazed out in defiance of the threatening signs of the morning. The yacht slipped easily through the light swell of the channel, her regular curtesies serving only to spangle her glossy sides with sparkling drops of brine and to punctuate her wake at even intervals with swelling knots of foam like the marks on a trailed sounding line.
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