Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . n, great slices of fish lay ungrilledAnd full of the sauce Tahitian the bowls of Miti were rilled,Wherein with the salt sea water co-mingles the coconut cream,With the deep pink clusters of Oura contrasted the golden gleamOf the Mamae-ura, the meia, her stouter cousin the Fei,Food for the garlanded guests, crowned milk-white with odorous the breadfruit fresh from the oven with fulvous hues of old goldAvenges her fate at the touch of a ringer rashly of soft Poepoe and harder masses of Pot,Cannon-ball native dump
Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . n, great slices of fish lay ungrilledAnd full of the sauce Tahitian the bowls of Miti were rilled,Wherein with the salt sea water co-mingles the coconut cream,With the deep pink clusters of Oura contrasted the golden gleamOf the Mamae-ura, the meia, her stouter cousin the Fei,Food for the garlanded guests, crowned milk-white with odorous the breadfruit fresh from the oven with fulvous hues of old goldAvenges her fate at the touch of a ringer rashly of soft Poepoe and harder masses of Pot,Cannon-ball native dumplings—the moderate appetite the island digestion of old man, maiden and boy,Feasting and fearing no evil unknown stomachic the daintiest dish of the day was a baked hog, greenly enshrined,Cut off in the prime of his age by a cruel fate and unkind,And piled pell mell in disorder lay heaps of crayfish and crab,Luckless armoured crustaceans, to scarlet turned their dull drab,And so every man turned to as it pleased his fancy and FEI OR MOUNTAIN PLANTAIN OF TAHITI Moorea 7 3 Stretching forth eager hands upon pork, upon fowl, upon goodly pickings were left for the commons sitting without,And their masters example they followed—needless question or the equal banquet was over. Full many a dinner has past,Has pleased for a while our fancy and brought us repentance at give me another such feast neath the shadow of murmuring palms,Content shall I be with my lot, and I ask not Fortune for though life be made up of small things; with a piquant charm of their own,Some things stand out above others remembered apart and alone. FOOT-NOTES AND GLOSSARY. The Novelist, poet and writer is the lamented R. L. Steven-son, of Samoa, the most graceful and elegant author of thisgeneration past. His Island Ballads are here alluded to. Rea, the Maori Renga—a sort of wild ginger used as a condi-ment. Miti, the salt-water sauce of Tah
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