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Updated: June 8, 2025
Tiare sighed. "Ah, I wish I were fifteen again." Then she caught sight of a cat trying to get at a dish of prawns on the kitchen table, and with a dexterous gesture and a lively volley of abuse flung a book at its scampering tail. "I asked him if he was happy with Ata. "'She leaves me alone, he said. 'She cooks my food and looks after her babies. She does what I tell her.
Her captain, M. Moet, Woronick, a pearl merchant, a government physician, and the passengers from the Paumotus were soon ashore shaking hands with friends. I walked behind them to Lovaina's for coffee, and was introduced to them all. Woronick took me to his house across the street from the Tiare Hotel, and there opened a massive safe and showed me drawer after drawer of pearls.
The Tiare Hotel Lovaina the hostess, the best-known woman in the South Seas Her strange ménage The Dummy A one-sided tryst An old-fashioned cocktail The Argentine training ship. The Tiare Hotel was the center of English-speaking life in Papeete. Almost all tourists stayed there, and most of the white residents other than the French took meals there.
The ordinary life of the Tiare Hotel was all upon the broad verandas which surrounded it, their high lattices covered with the climbing bougainvillea and stephanotis vines, which formed a maze for the filtering of the sunlight and the dimming of the activities of the streets.
Do not carry there this custom of lighting the oven! It is the work of an evil spirit of the night; this act of Tupua. For that reason I have said little of him in my story. I have spoken. Taumihau, The Man. Farewell to Tautira My good-bye feast Back at the Tiare A talk with Lovaina The Cercle Bougainville Death of David My visit to the cemetery Off for the Marquesas.
It had a very large garden behind, with tall cocoanut trees, and the finest rose-bushes in Tahiti. Vava, the Dummy, put all the sweepings from his stable on the flower beds, and Lovaina cut the roses for the tables at the Tiare Hotel and for presents to friends and prosperous tourists. Vava was often about the garden, and drove Lovaina to and fro in her old chaise.
Llewellyn remembers what Lovaina said ol' man Morton hollered when M'seer Lontane took the gun away from him at the Tiare. 'All right! hollered the uncle. 'All right! I'll leave it to God! The ol' boy loved that kid. 'E told Lovaina 'at 'is whole bloody family was drowned when the Rio Janeiro went down off Mile Rock in Frisco bay.
He looked at Tiare, and they both laughed. "He did not come much to Papeete after that, and about a year later it chanced that I had to go to that part of the island for I forgot what business, and when I had finished it I said to myself: <i Voyons>, why should I not go and see that poor Strickland? I asked one or two natives if they knew anything about him, and I discovered that he lived not more than five kilometres from where I was.
High up on the expansive green slope which rises a few hundred feet behind the Tiare Hotel is a white pole, and on this are hung various objects which tell the people of Papeete that a vessel is within view of the ancient sentinel of the mount. An elaborate code in the houses of all persons of importance, and in all stores and clubs, interprets these symbols.
It was the life vapor of the hinano, the tiare and the frangipani exhaled by those flowers of Tahiti, to be wafted to the sailor before he sights the scene itself, the breath of Lorelei that spelled the sense of the voyager.
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