Summer Cruising in the South Seas

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Charles Warren Stoddard. Summer Cruising in the South Seas

Summer Cruising in the South Seas

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PREFACE

SUMMER CRUISING IN THE. SOUTH SEAS

IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP

CHUMMING WITH A SAVAGE

PART I. KÁNA-ANÁ

PART II. HOW I CONVERTED MY CANNIBAL

PART III. BARBARIAN DAYS

TABOO.—A FÊTE-DAY IN TAHITI

JOE OF LAHAINA

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II

THE NIGHT-DANCERS OF WAIPIO

PEARL-HUNTING IN THE POMOTOUS

THE LAST OF THE GREAT NAVIGATOR

A CANOE CRUISE IN THE CORAL SEA

UNDER A GRASS ROOF. A LEAF TORN AT RANDOM FROM A TROPICAL NOTE-BOOK

MY SOUTH-SEA SHOW

THE HOUSE OF THE SUN

THE CHAPEL OF THE PALMS

KAHÉLE

LOVE-LIFE IN A LANAI

IN A TRANSPORT

A PRODIGAL IN TAHITI

AN AFTERGLOW

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Charles Warren Stoddard

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Why did they faint in the hour of deliverance when that narrow chasm was all that separated them from renewed life? Because the bark spread out her great white wings and soared away, hearing not the faint voices, seeing not the thin shadows that haunted that drifting wreck. The forsaken ones looked out from their eyrie, and watched the lessening sail until sight failed them; and then the lad, with one wild cry, leaped toward the fleeting bark, and was swallowed up in the sea.

Alone in a wilderness of waters. Alone, without compass or rudder, borne on by relentless winds into the lonesome, dreary, shoreless ocean of despair, within whose blank and forbidding sphere no voyager ventures; across whose desolate waste dawn sends no signal and night brings no reprieve; but whose sun is cold, and whose moon is clouded, and whose stars withdraw into space, and where the insufferable silence of vacancy shall not be broken for all time.

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