Robert Louis Stevenson
In the South Seas
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664649850
Table of Contents
CHAPTER VIII—THE PORT OF ENTRY
CHAPTER IX—THE HOUSE OF TEMOANA
CHAPTER X—A PORTRAIT AND A STORY
CHAPTER XI—LONG-PIG—A CANNIBAL HIGH PLACE
CHAPTER XII—THE STORY OF A PLANTATION
CHAPTER XIV—IN A CANNIBAL VALLEY
CHAPTER XV—THE TWO CHIEFS OF ATUONA
CHAPTER I—THE DANGEROUS ARCHIPELAGO—ATOLLS AT A DISTANCE
CHAPTER II—FAKARAVA: AN ATOLL AT HAND
CHAPTER III—A HOUSE TO LET IN A LOW ISLAND
CHAPTER IV—TRAITS AND SECTS IN THE PAUMOTUS
CHAPTER V—A TALE OF A TAPU— continued
CHAPTER VI—THE FIVE DAYS’ FESTIVAL
CHAPTER I—THE KING OF APEMAMA: THE ROYAL TRADER
CHAPTER II—THE KING OF APEMAMA: FOUNDATION OF EQUATOR TOWN
CHAPTER III—THE KING OF APEMAMA: THE PALACE OF MANY WOMEN
CHAPTER IV—THE KING OF APEMAMA: EQUATOR TOWN AND THE PALACE
CHAPTER VI—THE KING OF APEMAMA: DEVIL-WORK
CHAPTER VII—THE KING OF APEMAMA
PART 1: THE MARQUESAS
CHAPTER I—AN ISLAND LANDFALL
For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that I should try the South Seas; and I was not unwilling to visit like a ghost, and be carried like a bale, among scenes that had attracted me in youth and health. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four tons register; sailed from San Francisco towards the end of June 1888, visited the eastern islands, and was left early the next year at Honolulu. Hence, lacking courage to return to my old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward in a trading schooner, the Equator, of a little over seventy tons, spent four months among the atolls (low coral islands) of the Gilbert group, and reached Samoa towards the close of ’89. By that time gratitude and habit were beginning to attach me to the islands; I had gained a competency of strength; I had made friends; I had learned new interests; the time of my voyages had passed like days in fairyland; and I decided to remain. I began to prepare these pages at sea, on a third cruise, in the trading steamer Janet Nicoll. If more days are granted me, they shall be passed where I have