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WE START FOR TALOO BRIGHT was the morning, and brighter still the smiles of the young ladies who accompanied us, when we sprang into a sort of family canoe—wide and roomy—and bade adieu to the hospi…
A DEALER IN THE CONTRABAND IT MUST have been at least the tenth day, reckoning from the Hegira, that we found ourselves the guests of Varvy, an old hermit of an islander who kept house by himself pe…
OUR RECEPTION IN PARTOOWYE UPON starting, at last, I flung away my sandals—by this time quite worn out—with the view of keeping company with the doctor, now forced to go barefooted. Recovering his s…
RETIRING FOR THE NIGHT—THE DOCTOR GROWS DEVOUT THEY put us to bed very pleasantly. Lying across the foot of Po-Po's nuptial couch was a smaller one made of Koar-wood; a thin, strong cord, twis…
A RAMBLE THROUGH THE SETTLEMENT THE following morning, making our toilets carefully, we donned our sombreros, and sallied out on a tour. Without meaning to reveal our designs upon the court, our pri…
AN ISLAND JILT—WE VISIT THE SHIP UPON arriving home we fully laid open to Po-Po our motives in visiting Taloo, and begged his friendly advice. In his broken English he cheerfully gave us all the inf…
A PARTY OF ROVERS—LITTLE LOO AND THE DOCTOR WHILE IN Partoowye, we fell in with a band of six veteran rovers, prowling about the village and harbour, who had just come overland from another part of …
MRS. BELL ONE DAY, taking a pensive afternoon stroll along one of the many bridle-paths which wind among the shady groves in the neighbourhood of Taloo, I was startled by a sunny apparition. It was …
TALOO CHAPEL—HOLDING COURT IN POLYNESIA IN Partoowye is to be seen one of the best-constructed and handsomest chapels in the South Seas. Like the buildings of the palace, it stands upon an artificia…
QUEEN POMAREE IT is well to learn something about people before being introduced to them, and so we will here give some account of Pomaree and her family. Every reader of Cook's Voyages must r…
