Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . hools. Each house has two or three mongrel dogsof a dull yellow colour, miserable, mangy curs, vari-ously styled in the dialects Niihe, Peto, Moho orMoho-kio. These by some owners are consideredalmost as one of the family, and feed in common outof the family bowl. The scenery in the neighbour-hood of Haka-Ui is very fine, and at the head of thevalley there is a famous waterfall, approached by adeep gorge, the scene of an obstinate conflict abouti860, when that stout old convert King Te Moanasought to introduce Christianity with the str
Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands . hools. Each house has two or three mongrel dogsof a dull yellow colour, miserable, mangy curs, vari-ously styled in the dialects Niihe, Peto, Moho orMoho-kio. These by some owners are consideredalmost as one of the family, and feed in common outof the family bowl. The scenery in the neighbour-hood of Haka-Ui is very fine, and at the head of thevalley there is a famous waterfall, approached by adeep gorge, the scene of an obstinate conflict abouti860, when that stout old convert King Te Moanasought to introduce Christianity with the stronghand, after the fashion of King Olaf of Norway. Butthe obstinate heathen, sending away their womenand children to a mountain fastness, and entrenchingthemselves strongly behind a breastwork of rocks,defended themselves so starkly that they repulsedthe invaders. In the words of the merry old RobinHood ballad: The young men all, of spirits tall,took to their heels and fled withal, and boldly ranaway, and happy was the man who reached hiscanoe in to O a; 2 B CHAPTER 5 GLIMPSES OF EASTERN POLYNESIA : THE PAUMOTUARCHIPELAGO AND THE MARQUESAS Land ho ! north by north-east! is the cry. Fifteen days of tacking and beating up steadilyagainst a breeze, which comes clear and fresh out ofthe north-east, and the mail-schooner Gauloiseis approaching the famous land of the Aomaama(The Clouds of Brightness). The mountains ofHiva-Oa and her sister island, Tahuata, are loomingup before us, broad blunt ominous-looking masses,in the grey light of the early dawn. We have run the gauntlet of the Dangerous Archi-pelago, with its sunken reefs, light and baffling airs,and treacherous currents circling amongst chains andrings of low-lying green atolls, the highest scarcelyrising thirty feet above high-water mark : theDrowned Archipelago of Cook, otherwise called thePaumotu or Tuamotu group, built up bit by bit bymyriad coral insects working their way upwardfrom submerged tablelands an
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