Chapter 3 of 47
CHAPTER VII
White Shadows in the South Seas · Frederick O'Brien
CHAPTER VII
Idyllic valley of Vait-hua; the beauty of Vanquished Often; bathing on the beach; an unexpected proposal of marriage
CHAPTER VIII
Communal life; sport in the waves; fight of the sharks and the mother whale; a day in the mountains; death of Le Capitaine Halley; return to Atuona
CHAPTER IX
The Marquesans at ten o'clock mass; a remarkable conversation about religions and Joan of Arc in which Great Fern gives his idea of the devil
CHAPTER X
The marriage of Malicious Gossip; matrimonial customs of the simple natives; the domestic difficulties of Haabuani
CHAPTER XI
Filling the _popoi_ pits in the season of the breadfruit; legend of the _mei_; the secret festival in a hidden valley
CHAPTER XII
A walk in the jungle; the old woman in the breadfruit tree; a night in a native hut on the mountain