South Sea Tales

"Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the
light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the
suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded
coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three
to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon
was much pearl shell, and from the deck of the schooner, across the slender ring
of the atoll, the divers could be seen at work. But the lagoon had no entrance
for even a trading schooner. With a favoring breeze cutters could win in through
the tortuous and shallow channel, but the schooners lay off and on outside and
sent in their small boats."

- Excerpted from "South Sea Tales "

Table of Contents

The House of Mapuhi
The Whale Tooth
Mauki
"Yah! Yah! Yah!"
The
Heathen
The Terrible Solomons
The Inevitable White Man
The Seed of
McCoy