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WE LEVY CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE SHIPPING SCARCELY a week went by after the Julia's sailing, when, with the proverbial restlessness of sailors, some of the men began to grow weary of the Calabooza …
MOTOO-OTOO A TAHITIAN CASUIST THE Pill Box was sometimes employed for other purposes than that described in the last chapter. We sometimes went a-pleasuring in it. Right in the middle of Papeetee h…
ONE IS JUDGED BY THE COMPANY HE KEEPS ALTHOUGH, from its novelty, life at Captain Bob's was pleasant enough, for the time; there were some few annoyances connected with it anything but agreeabl…
CATHEDRAL OF PAPOAR—THE CHURCH OF THE COCOA-NUTS ON Sundays I always attended the principal native church, on the outskirts of the village of Papeetee, and not far from the Calabooza Beretanee. It w…
MISSIONARY'S SERMON; WITH SOME REFLECTIONS SOME degree of order at length restored, the service was continued, by singing. The choir was composed of twelve or fifteen ladies of the mission, occ…
SOMETHING ABOUT THE KANNAKIPPERS A WORTHY young man, formerly a friend of mine (I speak of Kooloo with all possible courtesy, since after our intimacy there would be an impropriety in doing otherwis…
HOW THEY DRESS IN TAHITI EXCEPT where the employment of making "tappa" is inflicted as a punishment, the echoes of the cloth-mallet have long since died away in the listless valleys of Tah…
TAHITI AS IT IS AS IN the last few chapters, several matters connected with the general condition of the natives have been incidentally touched upon, it may be well not to leave so important a subje…
SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED WE have glanced at their moral and religious condition; let us see how it is with them socially, and in other respects. It has been said that the only way to civilize a peopl…
SOMETHING HAPPENS TO LONG GHOST WE will now return to the narrative. The day before the Julia sailed, Dr. Johnson paid his last call. He was not quite so bland as usual. All he wanted was the men&#…
