ILLUSTRATIONS
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A quiet inlet on the coast of Samoa Frontispiece
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Lurline in drydock before sailing 8
"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
Chief Tufeli in the uniform of a sergeant of Fita-fitas 215
Faa-oo-pea, chieftainess of Pago Pago, making kava 222
Seuka, taupo of Pago Pago, illustrating a movement in the Siva 223
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
Lurline at anchor in Bay of Apia, Samoa 250
"The London Missionary Society steamer, John Williams, lay near us" 251
Maid of honour to the Taupo of Apia 258
A Samoan sunset 259
The sitting Sivas are essentially dances of the arms 274
"Never were seen such arms as in Samoa" 275
Fanua, who danced the swimming Siva by the light of the phosphorescent waves 280
Dancer with head knife 281
Forty years ago the Fijis were in a complete state of savagery 298
A Fijian head hunting canoe 299
"Lurline's cutter finished a poor second" 304
"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