Chapter I: Front Matter

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SWANSTON EDITION

VOLUME XVIII

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THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON

VOLUME EIGHTEEN

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CONTENTS

IN THE SOUTH SEAS

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Editorial Note ix

PART I.--THE MARQUESAS

CHAPTER
I. An Island Landfall 5

II. Making Friends 12

III. The Maroon 21

IV. Death 28

V. Depopulation 36

VI. Chiefs and Tapus 44

VII. Hatiheu 53

VIII. The Port of Entry 61

IX. The House of Temoana 69

X. A Portrait and a Story 77

XI. Long-Pig--a Cannibal High Place 85

XII. The Story of a Plantation 95

XIII. Characters 105

XIV. In a Cannibal Valley 112

XV. The Two Chiefs of Atuona 119

PART II.--THE PAUMOTUS

I. The Dangerous Archipelago--Atolls at a Distance 129

II. Fakarava: an Atoll at Hand 137

III. A House To Let in a Low Island 146

IV. Traits and Sects in the Paumotus 155

V. A Paumotuan Funeral 165

VI. Graveyard Stories 170

PART III.--THE EIGHT ISLANDS

I. The Kona Coast 187

II. A Ride in the Forest 197

III. The City of Refuge 203

IV. Kaahumanu 209

V. The Lepers of Kona 215

PART IV.--THE GILBERTS

I. Butaritari 223

II. The Four Brothers 229

III. Around Our House 237

IV. A Tale of a Tapu 247

V. A Tale of a Tapu (_continued_) 255

VI. The Five Days' Festival 265

VII. Husband and Wife 278