"It was one of those beautiful mornings which the poets of all nations have attempted to describe, when we saw the isl…"

"Tahiti is far famed yet too little known."

"This rahoo is laid on by the chiefs to repair the desolations their inordinate feastings make, and is always religiou…"

"When I asked him Pomare I] his reasons for not going to Matavai, he answered, that at present he could not possibly g…"

"In the tattooing of men and women there is a small spot on the inside of each arm, just above the elbow, which is a m…"