The Great Taboo
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Allen Grant. The Great Taboo
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. IN MID PACIFIC
CHAPTER II. THE TEMPLE OF THE DEITY
CHAPTER III. LAND; BUT WHAT LAND?
CHAPTER IV. THE GUESTS OF HEAVEN
CHAPTER V. ENROLLED IN OLYMPUS
CHAPTER VI. FIRST DAYS IN BOUPARI
CHAPTER VII. INTERCHANGE OF CIVILITIES
CHAPTER VIII. THE CUSTOMS OF BOUPARI
CHAPTER IX. SOWING THE WIND
CHAPTER X. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER XI. AFTER THE STORM
CHAPTER XII. A POINT OF THEOLOGY
CHAPTER XIII. AS BETWEEN GODS
CHAPTER XIV "MR. THURSTAN, I PRESUME."
CHAPTER XV. THE SECRET OF KORONG
CHAPTER XVI. A VERY FAINT CLUE
CHAPTER XVII. FACING THE WORST
CHAPTER XVIII. TU-KILA-KILA PLAYS A CARD
CHAPTER XIX. DOMESTIC BLISS
CHAPTER XX. COUNCIL OF WAR
CHAPTER XXI. METHUSELAH GIVES SIGN
CHAPTER XXII. TANTALIZING, VERY
CHAPTER XXIII. A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXIV. AN UNFINISHED TALE
CHAPTER XXV. TU-KILA-KILA STRIKES
CHAPTER XXVI. A RASH RESOLVE
CHAPTER XXVII. A STRANGE ALLY
CHAPTER XXVIII. WAGER OF BATTLE
CHAPTER XXIX. VICTORY—AND AFTER?
CHAPTER XXX. SUSPENSE
CHAPTER XXXI. AT SEA: OFF BOUPARI
CHAPTER XXXII. THE DOWNFALL OF A PANTHEON
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"Man overboard!"
It rang in Felix Thurstan's ears like the sound of a bell. He gazed about him in dismay, wondering what had happened.
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"Lay his head on the sacred stone block of our fathers," Tu-Kila-Kila went on, in an easy tone of command, waving his hand gracefully. And the men, moving forward, laid their comrade, face downward, on a huge flat block of polished greenstone, which lay like an altar in front of the hut with the mouldering skeletons.
"It is well," Tu-Kila-Kila murmured once more, half aloud. "You have given me the free-will offering. Now for the trespass! Where is the woman who dared to approach too near the temple-home of the divine Tu-Kila-Kila? Bring the criminal forward!"
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