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Of Shades At our morning repast on the second day of our stay in the hollow, our party indulged in much lively discourse. "Samoa," said I, "those isles of yours, of whose beauty you …
Ere recounting what was beheld on entering the House of the Morning, some previous information is needful. Though so many of Donjalolo's days were consumed by sloth and luxury, there came to him…
In Willamilla, no Yillah being found, on the third day we took leave of Donjalolo; who lavished upon us many caresses and, somewhat reluctantly on Media's part, we quitted the vale. One by one,…
They Have It was afternoon when we emerged from the defile. And informed that our host was receiving his guests in the House of the Afternoon, thither we directed our steps. Soft in our face, blew …
As in dreams I behold thee again, Willamila! as in dreams, once again I stroll through thy cool shady groves, oh fairest of the vallies of Mardi! the thought of that mad merry feasting steals over my…
The beach gained, we embarked. In good time our party recovered from the seriousness into which we had been thrown; and a rather long passage being now before us, we whiled away the hours as best we…
Still onward gliding, the lagoon a calm. Hours pass; and full before us, round and green, a Moslem turban by us floats—Nora-Bamma, Isle of Nods. Noon-tide rolls its flood. Vibrates the air, and tre…
"How still!" cried Babbalanja. "This calm is like unto Oro's everlasting serenity, and like unto man's last despair." But now the silence was broken by a strange, dista…
Judge not things by their names. This, the maxim illustrated respecting the isle toward which we were sailing. Ohonoo was its designation, in other words the Land of Rogues. So what but a nest of vi…
Approached from the northward, Ohonoo, midway cloven down to the sea, one half a level plain; the other, three mountain terraces—Ohonoo looks like the first steps of a gigantic way to the sun. And su…
