Index:Island nights entertainments (Scribner 1901).djvu

Title Island nights' entertainments [collected Works]
Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator Gordon Brown; William Hatherell
Year 1896
Publisher Scribner
Location New York
Source djvu
Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
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OCLC 1042123237

CONTENTS


THE BEACH OF FALESÁ: BEING THE NARRATIVE OF A SOUTH-SEA TRADER  
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Chapter I. A South-Sea Bhidal, 1
Chapter II. The Ban, 23
Chapter III. The Missionary, 57
Chapter IV. Devil-work, 67
Chapter V. Night in the Bush, 105


THE BOTTLE IMP, 127
THE ISLE OF VOICES, 183


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


THE BEACH OF FALESÁ

Uma, Frontispiece
  PAGE
Sketch Map, 1
Uma showed the Best Bearing for a Bride Conceivable, 16
"What does Fussy-ocky Mean?" 30
"Have You had Enough?" cried I, 58
"I'm no Missionary, nor Missionary Lover," 60
I Kept Posting Him up on Master Case and the Beach of Falesá, 66
"Will You know what was in His Heart?" cried He, 74
Looking round the Corner I saw a Shining Face, 96
We Each Wheeled Round and Stood Face to Face, 98

The Winchester cracked again, and Down She went,

118


THE BOTTLE IMP

"This is the Bottle," said the Man, 132
"Let Us have One Look at You, Mr. Imp," 146
"I thought I knew every One in this Country," 148
Keawe op the Bright House is out of Spirits, 156
The Young Man fell upon His Knees, "For God's Sake Buy It!" He cried, 160
There, under the Bananas, lay Keawe, His Mouth in the Dust, and as He lay He Moaned, 168
There was Kokua on the Floor, the Lamp at Her Side; before Her was a Milk-white Bottle, with a Round Belly and a Long Neck, 176
So off He went down the Avenue toward Town, and there goes the bottle out of the Story, 180


THE ISLE OF VOICES

"While He was so Thinking, there was His Father-in-law behind Him, Looking Vexed," 188
"The Herbs Caught Strongly Afire, and the Flames beat upon Keola," 190
"'Back!' cried Keola, 'Back! the Leaves are near Done,'" 192
"There He was Striding and Dwindling, and He held the Lamp high over His Head, and the Waves broke White about Him as He Went," 200
"In A Wide Shallow Water, Bright with Ten Thousand Stars, and all about Him was the Ring of the Land with its String of Palm Trees," 204
"When the Fires sprang up, He Charged for them like a Bull," 214
"Came Into the Borders of the Wood and stood Astonished," 216
"And the Missionary was very Sharp on Him for Taking the Second Wife in the Low Island," 218