Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . nd emerge on the breezy , after catching a distant glimpse of lofty preci-pices, we turn a sharp corner and find ourselvesstanding, as it were, in the very cornice of the skies,and see a great valley stretching out at our feet, far,far below, towards which our road winds down,terrace upon terrace, angle upon angle, until it is 1 130 Eastern Pacific Lands lost in the green forest abyss below. It is the valleyof Puamau, where the three highways of Hiva-Oameet in one. The name of this far Eastern Poly-nesian Avalon is a bea
Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . nd emerge on the breezy , after catching a distant glimpse of lofty preci-pices, we turn a sharp corner and find ourselvesstanding, as it were, in the very cornice of the skies,and see a great valley stretching out at our feet, far,far below, towards which our road winds down,terrace upon terrace, angle upon angle, until it is 1 130 Eastern Pacific Lands lost in the green forest abyss below. It is the valleyof Puamau, where the three highways of Hiva-Oameet in one. The name of this far Eastern Poly-nesian Avalon is a beautiful one. As already men-tioned, it means in English The Vale of Perpetual Flowers. ***** Thus far the description, however blurred andimperfect, of the beauties of Hiva-Oa; and if aughthere written should induce any curious or adventur-ous traveller to visit these fast-perishing relics of akindly people, and to carry a greeting from a whitebrother over the sea, to Kekelas simple parishioners,one hope of the writer will not have been altogetherin - . ? •? :??*.. n TAHITIAN GIRL IN GALA-DRESS AND BOA OF REVAREVA SATIN. CHAPTER 9 HIVA-OA TO TAHUATA One day, all too soon, the Eunice came in to Taha-Uku with her usual cargo of French and American notions/ or rather rations, consisting mostlyof various forms of canned fruits and meats, whichagreeably vary our somewhat eremitic island diet. Armed with a letter from Keene to his districttrader J. Wilkinson of Anapoo, I took a passage toTahuata across the water, where I was straightwayreceived with true Marquesan hospitality by Wilkin-son, his amiable native wife, and by Robert Stewart,another good old island identity of the true sturdyCaledonian type, who has now passed to the Landof the Leal. During my stay I realized more andmore that the favourable opinion I had formed of thepossibilities of the Marquesan character from myexperience in Hiva-Oa was solidly and reasonablyfounded. Life passed very pleasantly. There was alwa
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