The Pearl Lagoon

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Charles Bernard Nordhoff. The Pearl Lagoon

The Pearl Lagoon

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THE FLEDGLING. PICARO (with James Norman Hall) THE LAFAYETTE FLYING CORPS. FALCONS OF FRANCE. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY[1] MEN AGAINST THE SEA[1] PITCAIRN'S ISLAND THE HURRICANE

1. The Coming of the Schooner

2. The Pearls of Iriatai

3. Aboard the Tara

4. At Faatemu

5. Iriatai

6. The End of the Shark and The Beginning of the Diving

7. South Sea Fishermen

8. I Turn Pearl Diver

9. The Cave of the Shark God

10. The Cholita Comes to Iriatai

11. Piracy

12. "Boarders!"

13. Tahiti

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Charles Bernard Nordhoff

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"Well, Ben," said Uncle Harry, still clasping my father's hand, "ten years haven't changed you, after all! I can't tell you how good it is to be back on the Santa Brigida again! Your boy says that Mary and Marion are well—come, I want to see them; let's be getting along. Ill bring my sailors, if I may. No need to ask how you are—rugged as an old grizzly, eh?"

At sight of Uncle Harry my mother forgot her cares, and only the joy of preparing dinner for him persuaded my sister Marion to leave his side. We dined at midday in the old-fashioned manner, and that afternoon we lingered long at table, until a whispering buzz of talk from the courtyard told us that the news had spread—that my grandfather's old retainers were assembling to greet the boy they had known so many years before. Motioning us to keep our places, Uncle Harry rose from his chair with a smile and walked out through the door to the sunny court beyond.

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