Noa-Noa

Putting the matter as delicately as possible in his South Seas memoir, Noa-Noa, Gauguin told of nude dancers who whirled round and round the king, aiming to touch certain parts of his body with certain parts of theirs….

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Putting the matter as delicately as possible in his South Seas memoir, Noa-Noa, Gauguin told of nude dancers who whirled round and round the king, aiming to touch certain parts of his body with certain parts of theirs….

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Once again in Papeete, we met the Swiss of the Noa-Noa who had intended to eat raw foods in the Marquesas.

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

Business men and officials, tourists who expected to leave for America and the outside world on the Noa-Noa, overflowed with evidence of their delight.

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

Noa-Noa; discussions of the price of copra, mingled with the chants of the native feasters and ribald tales.

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

The Noa-Noa came in after many days of suspense, during which rumors and reports of war grew into circumstantial statements of engagements at sea and battles on land.

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

The secretary-general, the procureur-général, the first in command and the private secretary, sighted the carriage of the governor, who had not appeared until the Noa-Noa was out of the lagoon, and they went to tell him of the great affair.

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

The warrants had not come from the British consul, and there seemed no disposition on the Noa-Noa to save the face of la belle republique, for the blackened and blackguardly stokers still dangled their legs over the rail and made motions which caused the officials to shudder and the ladies to shut their eyes.

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

No shipwrecked mariner could have felt more poignancy in his search for a hospitable strand than I on the plunging prow of the Noa-Noa in my quest through the bright sunshine of that afternoon for the haven of desire.

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

Atupu struck the leader of the Noa-Noa snipers in the nose with a rock, and her success brought a paean of praise from all of us.

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