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ILLUSTRATIONS 



A young cocoanut forest 



The Maori type of beauty 



Washerwomen of Tahiti 



A chalk drawing by George Biddle 



Posing for me in the stream . 



On the road to Tautaua 



The Falls of Fautaua . 



A friend of Haamoura at Mataiea 



Ernest Darling, the Nature Man 



By the stream of Papara 



Centuries old iou trees of the Atoll of Tetiaroa, where the 



Tahitian belles improved their complexions 

 The steamship wharf at Papeete 

 The market place in Papeete 



On the road to Papenoo 



Near the Goblin Wood 



The morning bath of the village 



Matatini seeks a cocoanut for me . 



The fruits of the tropics 



The house and studio of Paul Gauguin 



The grotto of Maraa 



A human bronze . 



Early morning at Papenoo 



My playmates by the shore 



The school of Alfred 



The hermit crab and the sea anemones 



Starting to find his dinner 



After the wedding 



The grove of the Greek god 



A pleasant afternoon by my bird-cage house 



On the shore of the Vaitapiha 



The view from the house of Ori-a-Ori 



The river at Tautira 



My fare umu or cook house . 



In the Greek god's grove 



A friend in my house at Tautira 



The Pandanus trees by my fare umu 



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