Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . gst their kindred ;for Haka-Ui was the demesne of the old King Moana-Tini (Ten Thousand Oceans), who made the PrincessVaekehu his queen some fifty years ago. As I havementioned before, their son was Prince Stanislaus,thefriend of all foreigners, who entertained Stevensonduring his visit in the yacht Casco in 1888. The twochiefs of Haka-Ui, to whom they gave me an ela-borate letter of introduction, were the Princes Rarioand Petero, the sons of Stanislaus and PrincessSabine. So two or three days later I hired a horseand saddle from a Fre
Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . gst their kindred ;for Haka-Ui was the demesne of the old King Moana-Tini (Ten Thousand Oceans), who made the PrincessVaekehu his queen some fifty years ago. As I havementioned before, their son was Prince Stanislaus,thefriend of all foreigners, who entertained Stevensonduring his visit in the yacht Casco in 1888. The twochiefs of Haka-Ui, to whom they gave me an ela-borate letter of introduction, were the Princes Rarioand Petero, the sons of Stanislaus and PrincessSabine. So two or three days later I hired a horseand saddle from a Frenchman who kept the onlycabaret in the village, and towards sundown startedon my way along the cliffs alone. The cause of mydelay was that I had agreed upon a Taiohae nativeto come as guide, but unfortunately one of the ever-recurring koika or carousals was in had waited long for my promised escort, and atlength, hearing that he and all the rest were nowhopelessly tipsy, I determined to wait no longer,and to find my way to Haka-Ui alone. Had I. in o < i- U. OJ . -« £.§ < *} 2 | 1 8 CO V D O cc d < -r-2 rt Uauna to Nuku-Hiva 177 known how many miles of precipice and how many-deep valleys were to be crossed before I reached mydestination, I should most likely have waited tillmorning. I shall always remember that eerie and darksomejourney. It was like a nightmare. Just as thesun was going down, my nag fell lame. So there wasnothing to do but dismount, unroll a piece of rope,and drive him on in front of me, with occasionalwhacks of a long wand I cut from the bush hard hill and down dale we plodded, and presently,like a great wave, darkness came down upon , we kept moving on slowly and cautiouslyin the gloom, sticking closely to the trail. In aboutfour hours time the moon obligingly came out,showing a splendid panorama of hill and valleystretching out before us, to our left the sea, to ourright barren mountain-slopes dotted with guavabushes. No
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