Eastern Pacific lands; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands (1910) (14591451920)

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Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives



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of New Zealand say, the Patu-Pai-Arehe orwoodland elves sit singing the livelong day—theirtiny voices lost in the murmur of woods and waters.But these fancies the triste Marquesan has rejected,and his mind dwells on evil spirits, vampires, ghouls(Etua-hae, Matia-hae, Vehine-hae). In his gloomypantheon the merry and beneficent wood fairies haveno place. All around us, shadowed by waving woods,the dark columns of the tree-fern (or Paa-hei) shootup through the dense under-growth, stately andgraceful as a palm, and the giant fern (Nahe) quivershis mighty fronds, monarch amongst the lowliervegetation. On the green slopes around, and in the clefts of therock above, flourish in profusion the bracken, theparasol-fern, the lady-fern, the maiden-hair and theasplenium. The polypody, the Mamitll-Villkun orsnake-plant of Araucania, writhes herself roundmany a tree trunk, whilst in every wayside nook theharts-tongue fern brandishes her long sea-greenspathes. Great lycopodia or club-mosses stretch
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PUAMAU GIRL IN DANCING-DRESS, with tippet of human hair, and petticoat of white tapaor paper-mulberry bark-cloth. The Three Highways of Hiva-Oa 129 forth their crooked claws, crawling over the rockyledges like ungainly spiders ; and midst a networkof interlacing boughs, the thick tresses of the moin-ing-glory, or giant white convolvulus, twine in thetree tops. Low on the sward beneath, her littlesister, the ground-convolvulus, with a wonder ofdelicate pink blossoms enriched with a deep purpleeye, spreads her elfin carpet. The scarlet and yellowAnina nods her flaky blossoms, scattering atevery breath of air her winged seeds, light as thistle-down. The Niho-kioe, or rats tooth, puts forthher little yellow buds from many a humble corner,and from under the horses hoofs rises the aroma ofcrushed Pimata, sweet as new-mown hay. TheTutu, with her heart-shaped leaflets of a deep shininggreen, and clusters of small greenish flowers of apowerful and acrid odour, climbs about in tangles,forming i