href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@43824@[email protected]#ChXII" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">XII  In Pago Pago Bay
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XIII  Samoan Cricket: Fauga-Sa v. Pago Pago
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XIV  A Visit to Apia
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XV  Kava and the Siva
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XVI  Pago Pago to Suva
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XVII  In Suva and Mbau
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XVIII  Sharks
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XIX  His Wonders to Perform
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XX  Suva to Honolulu
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XXI  Honolulu to San Pedro
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ILLUSTRATIONS

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