The Great TabooPurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Man overboard!" It rang in Felix Thurstan's ears like the sound of a bell. He gazed about him in dismay, wondering what had happened. The first intimation he received of the accident was that sudden sharp cry from the bo'sun's mate. Almost before he had fully taken it in, in all its meaning, another voice, farther aft, took up the cry once more in an altered form: "A lady! a lady! Somebody over-board! Great heavens, it is her! It's Miss Ellis! Miss Ellis!" |
Contents
PREFACE | 5 |
1 IN MID PACIFIC | 7 |
2 THE TEMPLE OF THE DEITY | 17 |
3 LAND BUT WHAT LAND? | 29 |
4 THE GUESTS OF HEAVEN | 40 |
5 ENROLLED IN OLYMPUS | 51 |
6 FIRST DAYS IN BOUPARI | 61 |
7 INTERCHANGE OF CIVILITIES | 71 |
17 FACING THE WORST | 159 |
18 TUKILAKILA PLAYS A CARD | 165 |
19 DOMESTIC BLISS | 175 |
20 COUNCIL OF WAR | 186 |
21 METHUSELAH GIVES SIGN | 194 |
22 TANTALIZING VERY | 202 |
23 A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD | 209 |
24 AN UNFINISHED TALE | 216 |
8 THE CUSTOMS OF BOUPARI | 82 |
9 SOWING THE WIND | 93 |
10 REAPING THE WHIRLWIND | 104 |
11 AFTER THE STORM | 111 |
12 A POINT OF THEOLOGY | 120 |
13 AS BETWEEN GODS | 128 |
14 MR THURSTAN I PRESUME | 136 |
15 THE SECRET OF KORONG | 143 |
16 A VERY FAINT CLUE | 152 |
25 TUKILAKILA STRIKES | 223 |
26 A RASH RESOLVE | 232 |
27 A STRANGE ALLY | 239 |
28 WAGER OF BATTLE | 247 |
29 VICTORY AND AFTER? | 255 |
30 SUSPENSE | 264 |
OFF BOUPARI | 272 |
32 THE DOWNFALL OF A PANTHEON | 279 |
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