Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- GENERAL CHART SHOWING THE ‘SUNBEAM'S’ TRACK
- CHAPTER I FAREWELL TO OLD ENGLAND
- CHAPTER II MADEIRA, TENERIFFE, AND CAPE DE VERDE ISLANDS
- CHAPTER III PALMA TO RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER IV RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER V THE RIVER PLATE
- CHAPTER VI LIFE ON THE PAMPAS
- CHAPTER VII MORE ABOUT THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
- CHAPTER VIII RIVER PLATE TO SANDY POINT, STRAITS OF MAGELLAN
- CHAPTER IX SANDY POINT TO LOTA BAY
- CHAPTER X CHILI
- CHAPTER XI SANTIAGO AND VALPARAISO
- CHAPTER XII VALPARAISO TO TAHITI
- CHAPTER XIII THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
- CHAPTER XIV AT TAHITI
- CHAPTER XV TAHITI TO SANDWICH ISLANDS.—KILAUEA BY DAY AND BY NIGHT
- CHAPTER XVI HAWAIIAN SPORTS
- CHAPTER XVII HONOLULU—DEPARTURE FOR JAPAN
- CHAPTER XVIII HONOLULU TO YOKOHAMA
- CHAPTER XIX YOKOHAMA
- CHAPTER XX KIOTO, LATE MIACO
- CHAPTER XXI THE INLAND SEA
- CHAPTER XXII To CANTON UP THE PEARL RIVER
- CHAPTER XXIII FROM MACAO TO SINGAPORE
- CHAPTER XXIV SINGAPORE
- CHAPTER XXV CEYLON
- CHAPTER XXVI To ADEN
- CHAPTER XXVII VIA SUEZ CANAL
- CHAPTER XXVIII ‘HOME’
- APPENDIX
- LIST OF PERSONS ON BOARD THE YACHT
- Notes
- Plate section
CHAPTER XV - TAHITI TO SANDWICH ISLANDS.—KILAUEA BY DAY AND BY NIGHT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- GENERAL CHART SHOWING THE ‘SUNBEAM'S’ TRACK
- CHAPTER I FAREWELL TO OLD ENGLAND
- CHAPTER II MADEIRA, TENERIFFE, AND CAPE DE VERDE ISLANDS
- CHAPTER III PALMA TO RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER IV RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER V THE RIVER PLATE
- CHAPTER VI LIFE ON THE PAMPAS
- CHAPTER VII MORE ABOUT THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
- CHAPTER VIII RIVER PLATE TO SANDY POINT, STRAITS OF MAGELLAN
- CHAPTER IX SANDY POINT TO LOTA BAY
- CHAPTER X CHILI
- CHAPTER XI SANTIAGO AND VALPARAISO
- CHAPTER XII VALPARAISO TO TAHITI
- CHAPTER XIII THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
- CHAPTER XIV AT TAHITI
- CHAPTER XV TAHITI TO SANDWICH ISLANDS.—KILAUEA BY DAY AND BY NIGHT
- CHAPTER XVI HAWAIIAN SPORTS
- CHAPTER XVII HONOLULU—DEPARTURE FOR JAPAN
- CHAPTER XVIII HONOLULU TO YOKOHAMA
- CHAPTER XIX YOKOHAMA
- CHAPTER XX KIOTO, LATE MIACO
- CHAPTER XXI THE INLAND SEA
- CHAPTER XXII To CANTON UP THE PEARL RIVER
- CHAPTER XXIII FROM MACAO TO SINGAPORE
- CHAPTER XXIV SINGAPORE
- CHAPTER XXV CEYLON
- CHAPTER XXVI To ADEN
- CHAPTER XXVII VIA SUEZ CANAL
- CHAPTER XXVIII ‘HOME’
- APPENDIX
- LIST OF PERSONS ON BOARD THE YACHT
- Notes
- Plate section
Summary
Methinks it should have been impossible
Not to love all things in a world so filled,
Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air
Is music, slumbering on her instrument.
Saturday, December 9th.—After leaving the harbour of Papiete we passed close to the island of Eimeo, on which we have gazed so often and with so much pleasure during the past week. It is considered the most beautiful island of the Georgian group, and, we all regretted that we were unable to spare the time to visit it. From afar it is rather like the dolomite mountains in the Tyrol, and it is said that the resemblance is even more striking on a near approach. The harbour is a long narrow gorge between high mountains, clothed with palms, oranges, and plantains, and is one of the most remarkable features of the place. Huahine is the island of which the Earl and the Doctor speak, in ‘South Sea Bubbles,’ in terms of such enthusiasm, and Rarotonga is the head and centre of all the missionary efforts of the present time in these parts.
The weather to-day was fine, though we had occasional squalls of wind and rain. We were close-hauled, and the motion of the vessel was violent and disagreeable. I was very sea-sick, and was consoled to find that several of the men were so too.
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- A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam'Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, pp. 254 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1878