Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . from a desolate littlenook in the western portion of the island known asHananaonao (Mosquito Bay). It runs over thehills to the rich valley of Taoa with her palm-groves,cotton plantations and mineral springs, passing onthrough populous Atuona, walled in at the back bytowering ranges of basalt. Thence, skirting thecliffs, with a gentle descent it dips down towards theTahauku basin, and then turns suddenly aside andbends away inland across the island, cutting offthe barren and desolate western portion whichterminates in Kiukiu, the Lands
Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . from a desolate littlenook in the western portion of the island known asHananaonao (Mosquito Bay). It runs over thehills to the rich valley of Taoa with her palm-groves,cotton plantations and mineral springs, passing onthrough populous Atuona, walled in at the back bytowering ranges of basalt. Thence, skirting thecliffs, with a gentle descent it dips down towards theTahauku basin, and then turns suddenly aside andbends away inland across the island, cutting offthe barren and desolate western portion whichterminates in Kiukiu, the Lands End of Hiva-Oa,traditionally reported as a haunted and accursedspot, from which the spirits of the dead, as from theMaori Reinga, take their final leap into the darkunknown. So, one fine morning soon after my arrivalat Keenes hospitable mansion at Tahauku saw meon my way across the island mounted on my hostsfavourite black mare Carribee, in the company ofa white settler, Charley Case, a very harmless person, 98 139° Statute Miles 5 O 5 v—i t—M I I. Watafenua-, Teohotepapsi PlTeihuae Boi*df>hus StTcUtMo tuMoTcohe* Jvoiyvl^^^ TAHUATA Htmapoop ^^§^4 tefa^^^p******^ liana ttmrJi ff^,/e Wordintaa Hock hope 6 te keho 13^°West Mono -TANlj t 140° West «s^e mh pe mmiaMim^. ,w%} W^j^atU£LttLSL^ay ?.???? or v^ga Marqidsienn e Ijfcf^ &&Ekapo erM\V &>%^ 2S? ^ 3/~ °^ ^ Wfl. Taipi-voL wt^e rr/)ee of Herman. MeZvrJ/s. f , , | | Sobat^ Miles 1^0* Maps of Hiva-Oa and Tahuata Islands (Soutli Marquesas) and Nuku-Hiva Island (North Marquesas). The Three Highways of Hiva-Oa 99 upon whose shoulders Stevenson has cast the blackmantle in that most realistic of South Sea tales,The Beach of Falesa. The poor man had justseen the book, and was smarting under a keen senseof injury at being made to figure in the role ofprincipal villain in a novel, which frame of mind someplentiful libations of Hollands, taken as an earlystirrup-cup, did not tend in the least to dispel. W
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