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Updated: June 26, 2025
Stevenson, and when he appeared at a feast with a wreath of golden yellow leaves on his head, all the company cried out in admiration. As he spoke very good French, communication with him was easy, and many a pleasant evening was spent in his house at Tautira, exchanging strange tales of old, wild, bloody days in the Scottish Highlands and in the Southern Seas.
I climbed the steep stairs, and at the first table saw Fung Wah, a Chinese immigrant importer and pearl merchant, with Lying Bill, McHenry, Hallman, and Landers, the latter only recently back from Auckland. I was immediately aware of the sad contrast with Tautira.
Was I an average tourist or loafer come to put an unknown quantity in their smoothly working problem of a pleasant life in this Eden? The artist must have looked me over for indications of familiarity with brush and palette. I replied to Choti that I had breakfasted with T'yonni, and he smiled at my knowledge of his friend's Tautira name. "How about getting an apartment or a suite of rooms?"
Two dream-like months were spent on this lovely island of Tautira, while day after day, like shipwrecked mariners, they scanned the sea in vain for some signs of the long-delayed Casco. At last provisions fell so low that there seemed no prospect ahead of them but to live on the charity of their kind friend Ori. Thinking of this one day Mrs.
I sank into dreams, with the slumbrous roar upon the coral barrier like the thunder of a sea god's rolling drum. My life at Tautira The way I cook my food Ancient Tahitian sports Swimming and fishing A night hunt for shrimp and eels. T'yonni and Choti were the only aliens except myself in all Tautira, nor did others come during my stay.
In the days of Captain Cook The first Spanish missionaries Difficulties of converting the heathens Wars over Christianity Ori-a-Ori, the chief, friend of Stevenson We read the Bible together The church and the himene. Captain Cook barely escaped shipwreck here. The Bay of Tautira is marked on the French map, "Mouillage de Cook," the anchorage of Cook.
But for centuries Tautira was known as a focus of the wise, of priests, sorcerers, and doctors, and, said the knowing Brault, especially of the dancers, and those who, he explained, under the banner of Venus. Ont vu maintes batailles Et reçu nombre d'entailles Depuis les pieds jusqu'au front.
Now that writer was once here in Tautira " Ori-a-Ori leaned toward me, and in a voice laden with memories, a voice that harked back over a quarter of a century, said slowly and meditatively, but with surety: "Rui? Is the ship the Tatto?"
Mataiea and the tribe of Tetuanui had won my affections, but at Tautira I had become a Tahitian. I had lived in every way as if bred in the island, and had fallen so in love with the people and the mode of life, the peace and simplicity of the place, that only the already formed resolution to visit all the seas about stirred me to depart.
After much trouble a Chinaman with a team was secured, who agreed to drive the entire family to Tautira, the largest village, sixteen miles away over a road crossed by no less than twenty-one streams. On this uncertain venture they started, with the head of the family in a state of collapse, knowing nothing of the village they were going to or the living it would afford them.
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