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SOUTH-SEA IDYLS.

by

CHARLES WARREN STODDARD.







[Illustration: (Printer's logo)]

Boston:
James R. Osgood and Company,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
1873.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
by Charles Warren Stoddard,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.




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CONTENTS.


                                                    PAGE

        IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP                      7

        CHUMMING WITH A SAVAGE.

            I. KANA-ANA                               25

            II. HOW I CONVERTED MY CANNIBAL           43

            III. BARBARIAN DAYS                       57

        TABOO.--A FETE-DAY IN TAHITI                  80

        JOE OF LAHAINA                               112

        THE NIGHT-DANCERS OF WAIPIO                  128

        PEARL-HUNTING IN THE