The romance of the South Seas (1906)

Titre : The romance of the South Seas
Auteur : Clement Lindley Wragge (1852-1922)
Editeur : Chatto & Windus – Londres
Date : 1906
Sujet : Partie II « THE VOWEL ISLAND ;  » or « A TRIP TO TAHITI VIA RAROTONGA AND RAIATEA « 
CHAPTER III
Rarotonga to Raiatea : A Stirring Incident—A Volatile Woman—The Immortal Universe—The Trader’s Story—A  » Romance of the Anti-meridian « —Religious Squabbles—Hold on to your Greenwich Date—Pastor and Priest—Christians, Awake !—Two Sundays a Week —Smoking-room Orators—Missionaries—Manchester Slums and Pacific Islands—The Becording Angel—The  » Great Awakening  » —Ad Veritatem per Scientism 150
CHAPTER IV
Baiatea : A Poet’s Dreamland—Squeaking Pigs and Lovely Girls— Jack Oldham—Pacific Life Unique—Flowers and Shells—Hurrah for Tahiti !—Native Passengers—Girl Mothers—Major Umphank and  » Niggers « —Cocoa-nut Oil—Arrival at Papeete—Tahiti, at Last I —A Mooning Couple 165
CHAPTER V
First Day. Practical Information : Physical Geography and Climate— A Charming Paradise—Money Matters. Papeete : The Market—Love Wreaths— Sunday in Tahiti—What Price Spinsters ?—Bachelors at a Premium—Les Belles Tahitiennes—The Island Grog-shop—The Cathedral—Public Buildings—Native Ways and Bamboo Houses- Seductive Half-castes—Lavina the Goddess—A Bacchanalian Feast —A Famous Chief. Mountain Pictures—The Vision of a Soul— The Broom Road—Flotsam and Jetsam—Pomare’s Monument : Nothing is Lost—Preaching Extraordinary—A Shrewd Lawyer —Scenes in the Country. Matavai Bay : Memories of Cook. Point Venus : Captain Cook’s Monument. Beturn to Papeete — Evening Pleasures 173
CHAPTER VI
Second Day. The Beach : Inter-island Schooners—Marine Life—Gunboat Studies—A South Sea Dentist—A Philosophizing  » Crusoe. » The Fautaua Valley : The  » Fashoda  » Incident—Eyes and no Eyes —A Contrast—Native Hospitality—Bathing Extraordinary—The Old, old Story—Notes by theWay—Arcadian Pleasures. The Hills Nature Studies—A Native Carrier—The « Staubach » in Tahiti Nature’s Music—Soldiers at Play—The Governor’s Asylum. Return to Papeete : Sunset over Eimeo—Tahitian Barbers—Evening in a Suburban Village . . 222
CHAPTER VII
Third and Fourth Days. From Papeete to Papara and Return: A Tahitian Diligence—The Easter Island Settlement—Jottings en route—God in Nature—Chinese Settlers— » Three Things a Man should do »— « Fruitless Bachelors deserve Extinction « —The Duties of a Woman—Counsel’s Opinion—Subjects for the Camera —The Village Postmaster—A Legend of Eimeo—Punaavia—Native Schools—Chile Dollars—An Enterprising Frenchman—Taxation— An Aureola of Glory—Old Forts—Tahiti versus Mincing Lane— Vanilla Drying—Paea—AFamous Fishing-ground— » Tethys’ Bath » —Arrival at Papara—A Church Feast—Tati the Orator—Aux bons Gourmets—Religious Spite— » Not if we know it 1 « —War News in Tahiti—The Nobleman of the Pacific — Gloire a la France t—An Ancient Marai—The Tale of theRock—Human Sacrifice—The Glories of a Coral Reef—Medicine Men—Return to Papeete — Vale I Tahiti I 255
Type : monographie imprimée
Nombre de pages : 336
Langue : Anglais
Source : Cornell University Library
Identifiant : DU50.W8
Numérisation : MSN
Lien : https://archive.org/details/cu31924023261856
MHP00783

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