Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER II. ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN — WELCOME AUSTRALIA. The Joys of Terra Firma — The Playground of America — BewilderingVegetation—Brown-skinned Divers — Rum and Missionaries—Ten toOne — The Future of the Hawaiian — Our Departure — Fire, Fire — Between the Flames and the Sea — An Exciting Race for Life —The Navigators Islands — The First Glimpse — The Samoans as NatureMade Them — Stalwart Oarsmen — On Shore Again—Costumes notfrom Paris — Babies in Brown Coats — The Great Event of the Month — A
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER II. ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN — WELCOME AUSTRALIA. The Joys of Terra Firma — The Playground of America — BewilderingVegetation—Brown-skinned Divers — Rum and Missionaries—Ten toOne — The Future of the Hawaiian — Our Departure — Fire, Fire — Between the Flames and the Sea — An Exciting Race for Life —The Navigators Islands — The First Glimpse — The Samoans as NatureMade Them — Stalwart Oarsmen — On Shore Again—Costumes notfrom Paris — Babies in Brown Coats — The Great Event of the Month — A Splendid Race — The Sabbath Day Holy in Samoa — A KinglyRomance — A Royal Salary— Tappa and Kava — An Appetizing Pro-cess—Farewell to the Oasis — An Awful Storm — A Mournful Spectre — Our Frolicsome Companions — A Week without a Wednesday — AnExaggerated English Channel — New Zealands Stern and RuggedShores — Goodbye HAT the green oases of the des-ert with their sweet fountainsand their sentinel palm trees areto the traveler across the sandySahara, such are two ports atwhich the Oceanic steamers call,to the voyager on Pacific two oases are Honolulu inthe Sandwich Islands, and Apiain the Samoan group. After only seven days on the wil-derness of waves we can truth- fully say with Tennyson We have had enough of action and of motion ; weRolled to starboard, rolld to larboard, when the surge was seething free,Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam fountains in the sea. (50) AN OASIS IN THE DESERT OF WATERS. 51 and now, very early on the seventh morning after the Godbe with, yon sounded in our ears from the San Franciscopier, we see a faint cloud-like form in the dim horizon. Is ita cloud or a mountain % Is it a mist-bank or solid terrafirma f The strengthening daylight soon and joyouslyresolves our doubts. That blue cloud-like mountain is land;solid, substantial, stable soil; good gr
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