Outing . e boat carries the mails—andyou among them if you wish—from Pa-peete to Moorea. Like most places here-abouts Moorea has an older, unused name—Eimeo. Over in Papeete a globe-trotting British 4i7 4i8 The Outing Magazine grumbler who saw the world through blueglasses, said to me: Moorea is the mostbeautiful island in the world. That set-tled it; the next Saturday found me oneof a motley group on the little Mooreaboat, steered by the knees of an agedKanaka, whose hands were busy rollingcigarettes out of black native tobacco andpandanus leaf. Day after day from Tahiti I had watched circle

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Outing . e boat carries the mails—andyou among them if you wish—from Pa-peete to Moorea. Like most places here-abouts Moorea has an older, unused name—Eimeo. Over in Papeete a globe-trotting British 4i7 4i8 The Outing Magazine grumbler who saw the world through blueglasses, said to me: Moorea is the mostbeautiful island in the world. That set-tled it; the next Saturday found me oneof a motley group on the little Mooreaboat, steered by the knees of an agedKanaka, whose hands were busy rollingcigarettes out of black native tobacco andpandanus leaf. Day after day from Tahiti I had watched circle of the coral reef, where the Pacificshows her white fangs to warn the profanefoot of man from where Moorea, her fairestdaughter, the still unravished bride ofquietness, lies asleep, but smiling. Asmile after mile we sailed along outside thesurf-crested reef, the island almost over-hanging us, so near yet never any nearer,the place became fixed in my mind as anenchanted land, an ideal to look toward,.

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