A Portrait Polynesia

Her husband, a French artist, completing the painting sailed back to France. Soon the island woman had his daughter. Turning eight, war drums were heard, the two must separate. The child sailed across the Pacific to China. She resided in Peking. Later she had to flee up to a missionary along the Mongolian border, a land of ponies and warlords.
The mother was last seen in her canoe paddling out to sea. Days battling wind and waves. She landed on the shores of Tahiti. The first time she stepped on cement, experienced a house with a door, an automobile and its horn.
The daughter, thousands of miles away in a foreign oriental environment, said "Mama, someday I will find you."