Chapter I: Introduction: ix

CHAPTER

I ON THE TRAIL OF ADVENTURE 1

II THE BUILDING OF THE "SNARK" 13

III ON THE HIGH SEAS 49

IV A PACIFIC PARADISE 84

V MOLOKAI, THE LEPER ISLAND 117

VI THE LONG TRAVERSE 137

VII IN THE MARQUESAS 158

VIII THE SOCIETY ISLANDS 180

IX SOME SOUTH SEA ROYALTY 200

X THE SAMOAN GROUP 242

XI LOST IN THE FIJI ISLANDS 260

XII SOUTH SEA CANNIBALS 268

XIII OCEANIC CRUISING 309

XIV THE END OF THE VOYAGE 334

POSTSCRIPT 368

ILLUSTRATIONS

Martin Johnson and a Pathe motion-picture operator on a hunt in the Solomons _Frontispiece_

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_Snark_ at Honolulu 8

Complement of the _Snark_ in Solomon Islands 8

A Solomon Island Army 20

On the Ballassona River, Solomon Group 32

A Te Motu Round House, Santa Cruz Group 44

"War and Peace"--Foate Cannibals in Mission Boat. Artificial Islands off Malaita, Solomon Group 56

War Canoes in Their Shelter 68

Manufactured Islet, with Shrine of a Native Chief--Solomon Group 80

A Man of Roas. Solomon Group, Island of Malaita 92

Chief of Florida Island, Solomon Group 92

Group of Roas Women, Solomon Islands 100

A Mission School, teacher and members of class 112

Molokai, the Leper Settlement, Hawaiian Islands 122

Leper band at Molokai, the leper island of the Hawaiian Group 132

Santa Cruz natives in catamaran canoes 146

Canoe House in Solomon Islands 154

Marquesas Islanders 166

The Old Home of Robert Louis Stevenson, Marquesas Islands 176

The Price of a Wife--feather money 184

A Study in Ornaments 196

Mission Schooner trading among the Islands 210

The Haunt of the Crocodile, Solomon Islands 224

Houses on Outrigger Canoes, Solomon Islands 238

Types of Solomon Islanders 246

At Otivi Village, Santa Cruz Group 256

The Landing Place at Namu, Santa Cruz Group 264

Mrs. Godden and her School people, New Hebrides Islands 278

Cannibal Village, Foate, Solomon Group 292

Artificial Island, off Malaita, Solomon Group 312

"Penduffryn," the largest cocoanut plantation in the world. Island of Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands 322

Making copra at "Penduffryn," Solomon Islands 330

A Florida canoe--Solomons 342

Trading station, Langakauld-Ugi--Solomons 354