‘Tomarcher’ was the son of writer, critic and translator William Archer, who had visited Stevenson in his Bournemouth house, called Skerryvore after the famous Stevenson lighthouse in the Hebrides.

1. Bob Stevenson was Stevenson’s cousin, son of Alan Stevenson, the designer of the Skerryvore lighthouse. Three years older than Stevenson, he was a favourite playmate in childhood and a valued friend as a young man.

2. Mrs. Isobel Strong, daughter of Stevenson’s wife Fanny Osbourne. Belle was living in Honolulu with her artist husband Joe Strong.

3. The Stevenson party had spent some time at Anaho Bay in the Gilbert Islands.

1. A neighbour in Bournemouth who became very friendly with both Fanny and Louis Stevenson. Stevenson nicknamed her ‘the Gamekeeper’.

2. The Society Islands, of which Tahiti is the largest.

3. On the opposite side of Tahiti from Papeete, the island’s main town and capital of French Polynesia. The Stevensons had spent a very happy time there.

4. Stevenson’s mother, Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson, recently widowed, accompanied him for the first part of the South Seas trip.

5. Hawaiian Islands.

6. In the Hawaiian language Kanaka is the word for man, but was widely used to refer to all native Pacific islanders.

7. A village in the Marquesas Islands.

1. One of the Hawaiian Islands, on which there was a leper colony. Stevenson made a point of visiting Molokai during his stay in Honolulu.

2. Stevenson came to admire the French novelist, though with certain reservations.

3. Father Damien was the Belgian priest who presided over the leper colony. Although he never met Damien, who died before Stevenson’s visit to Molokai, he admired him greatly. Damien was considered a reprobate by many. Stevenson defended him against what he considered sanctimonious Protestant attack in ‘An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr Hyde of Honolulu’ (1890).

1. At Apemama in the Gilberts King Tembinoka constructed a compound of huts for the Stevenson party’s stay. It was known as ‘Equator Town’, after the schooner Equator  in which they were voyaging.

2. Stevenson referred thus to the British Museum, where Colvin was Curator of Prints.

3. The Master of Ballantrae, recently published.

4. The Wrong Box, written in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne before leaving the United States for the Pacific, and recently published.

5. One of the Gilbert Islands.

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