tepeva

Updated: May 5, 2025

They were of all sizes and shapes and tints, from a pear-shaped, brilliant, Orient pearl of great value, to the golden pipi of inconsiderable worth. Woronick spoke of a pearl he had bought some years ago in Takaroa, the creation of which, he said, had cost the lives of three men including a great savant. "If you go to Takaroa," said Woronick, "be sure to see old Tepeva a Tepeva.

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