A quiet inlet on the coast of Samoa
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Lurline in drydock before sailing
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"The Commodore laboriously squinted out his first sights"
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"Full-and-by"
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Waiohae Beach, Island of Hawaii
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Hula dancer with Eukalele
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"All of the images were covered with moss"
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"A hardened old offender who preferred white man to native
meat"
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The best surviving example of Marquesan tattooing
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"Into it were thrown the bones of the victims after the feast
was over"
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"The part of Christ is taken by a native called Lurau"
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Marquesan mother and child
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"Pontius Pilate has been played for twenty years by an old
chief—a quondam cannibal"
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"Just in time to respond to his 'cue' in the John the Baptist
tableau"
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"Hatiheu, the most sublime combination of mountain, vale and
sea that my eyes have ever rested on"
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A Marquesan fisherman of Hatiheu
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Native woman washing on the beach, Tahiti
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A Mission bathing suit. Before the bath—and after
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The inevitable end of every South Sea trading schooner
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A Tahitian couple
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"A naval station at Pago Pago has placed the United States,
strategically, in the strongest position in western Polynesia"
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Chief Tufeli in the uniform of a sergeant of Fita-fitas
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Faa-oo-pea, chieftainess of Pago Pago, making kava
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Seuka, taupo of Pago Pago, illustrating a movement in the Siva
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A Samoan house in the course of construction
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"Chief Tufeli came over for the express purpose of buying
the yacht"
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"Chief Mauga squared away to face the bowling of Chief Malatoba"
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To-a, who made the best score for Pago Pago, facing the bowler
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"Whirling and yelling like dervishes they made a circuit of the
ground"
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"A sinewy brown figure starts clambering up the tree"
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Lurline at anchor in Bay of Apia, Samoa
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"The London Missionary Society steamer, John Williams, lay
near us"
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Maid of honour to the Taupo of Apia
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A Samoan sunset
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The sitting Sivas are essentially dances of the arms
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"Never were seen such arms as in Samoa"
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Fanua, who danced the swimming Siva by the light of the phosphorescent
waves
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Dancer with head knife
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Forty years ago the Fijis were in a complete state of savagery
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A Fijian head hunting canoe
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"Lurline's cutter finished a poor second"
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"Thakambau's great war canoe, over a hundred feet in length,
formerly launched over human bodies"
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Shark on the beach at Mbau
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Fijian boys boxing
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Weaving the walls of a Fijian house
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Interior of a Fijian house, showing how it is bound together
with coco fibre
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A Fijian warrior
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Reefing the mainsail
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Untying a reef in the mainsail
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IN THE TRACKS OF THE TRADES