our visit, so the opporttmity was taken to collect some of ite invertebrate 
inhabitants. On the return to P’are in tjite hired truck, we stopped to take 
Qk<^ So 
photographs of the fishing village— much of it is on pilings »remini scent of 
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the Swiss lake dwellangs^ parts of Venice perhaps, or somej^ilTage^ ^ 
<cns^r^f fhe Maevsi elementary school^at recess as we passed by*// Pri? 

— — reftt 
night. May 3> was to have been devoted to. collecting 
a 
J 
violent wind storm wh ich blew up rather suddenly from the south west 
bwt^ 
roughing up the ie^^endered this impossible,^^,*^^ promised also to delay our 
aKc(. 1?/ 
ng i ^^e^Captain ^o^fTTiiiy upped the anchor A seven twenty-five -sped IvTcvS 
headed for home. In spite of the 
unruly sea, the ’’Mareva” made good 
time. Rounding the northeast point of Moorea by 9 in the morning, the Captain 
had the Mareva back in Papeete shortlj^ before noon on Saturday, although this 
.ay, no time v/as lost v^atering, refuelling, and getting 
provisions aboard. In less than two weeks our time would be up 
and we had rot yet set foot dn Moorea, or 
tn 
anv of its waters. 
Sunday was as wet as Saturday, Monday all preparations for departure 
having been completed by 2 o*clock vdth ’^^Good clear weather - fine sea^* as 
the Capt"?in noted in his log, the course was set for Opnnohu Bay, Moorea, 
There is no '^oubt that fond remembrance of visits to Tahiti, and to 
Moorea especially, during his three years in the South Seas inspired Anatole 
von HiAgel to write in the Encyclopedia Britannica for the first time, in 
IBBB (9th edition, vol, 23) > that ”A11 voyagers agree that for varied beauty 
Pacific 
of form and colour, the Society Islands are unsurpassed in Had 
the Baron travelled as widely among the Greater and Lesser Antilles and through 
the Caribbean and adjacent waters, he svirelv would have included the Atlantic 
Sc) 
islands in that comparison v/hich pays such a high tribute to the beauty of the 
