Atuona

By the time our anchors were set in the Bay of Atuona, we were able to share the much happier news that a new crew member was growing inside me.

Bringing The World With Us--Virtually 2007

On the eve of my going all the youth and beauty of Atuona crowded my

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Last days in Atuona; My Darling Hope's letter from her son.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

First night in Atuona valley; sensational arrival of the Golden Bed;

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

It is for those who stay at home yet dream of foreign places that I have written this book, a record of one happy year spent among the simple, friendly cannibals of Atuona valley, on the island of

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

She'd go to Atuona if I'd go; but I can't make a living there, and I'm rotten enough now without living off her people in the cannibal group.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

Gauguin wasn't such good company as Stevenson, because 'e parleyvoud, but' e was a bloody worker with 'is brushes at Atuona.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

It was a breadfruit season away from Atuona, at the very least.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

I was reduced to a dry pareu, and in it alone, barefooted, I reached the rustic paradise, the loveliness of which was to content me more than any spot except the strangely fascinating valley of Atuona in the sad isle of Hiva-Oa.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

Vait-hua was to teach me to be modest without pother, to chat with those about me during my ablutions without concern for the false vanities of screens or even the shelter of rocks as in the river in Atuona.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900