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CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| The royal progress round Tahiti (continued)—French fort at Taravon—The peninsula—Life in bird-cage houses—Torchlight procession—Return to Papeete, | 198 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| The semaphore—Immutable tides—The coral-reef—Spearing fish—Netting—catching sharks—A royal mausoleum—Superstitions of East and West—Centipedes—Intoxicating drinks—Influenza—Death of Mrs Simpson, | 210 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| The royal progress round Moorea—The Seignelay starts for the Marquesas and Paumotus—Indecision, | 226 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Vain regrets — Some account of the Marquesas and the Paumotu groups, | 236 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Tahitian hospitality—A South Sea store—A bathing picnic—The Marquesans—Tattooing—Ancient games of Tahiti—Malay descent—Theory of a northerly migration, | 267 |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Life in Papeete—The market—Churches—Country life in the South Seas, | 286 |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| Visit to the Protestant mission on Moorea—A sketch of the early history of the mission, | 294 |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| A healing tree—Plantation life—Vanilla crops—Cat-and-dog life—A foiled assassin—The tropics of to-day—England in days of yore—Among the crags—Infanticide—Heathen days, | 310 |
