Stevenson was fascinated by the common cultural ground he discovered.

2. ‘The Song of Rahero’, a narrative poem in ballad form which Stevenson based on a story heard from Princess Moë at Tautira.

3. A Tahitian tribal name, which Stevenson compares with warlike figures and clans in Scottish history.

1. The flying island in the third part of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726).

1. Massachusetts whaling port.

1. An atoll in the Ellice Islands, Southwest Pacific. 

1. Polynesian island in the central South Pacific. 

1. Principal island of the Gambiers, French Polynesia.

2. Polynesian volcanic island now belonging to Chile.

1. Sereno Bishop, Hawaiian-born American missionary. 

1. Character in Molière’s play of the same name, a religious hypocrite. 

1. Adam Ivan Krusenstern, a Russian explorer, navigator and hydrographer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was the first Russian to circumnavigate the world. 

1. The German firm J.C. Godeffroy and Son led the exploitation of copra in the Pacific. 

1. Stevenson had arrived at the port of Rotoava on Fakarava atoll in the Paumotus group.

2. Main town of Tahiti and capital of French Polynesia.

1. Sir David Wilkie, historical and genre painter, 1785–1841. William Mulready, genre painter in the Wilkie style, 1786–1863. 

1. Lucius Octavius Cincinnatus, 5th century b.c. Roman senator who put devotion to the republic before personal fame and power. Appointed Dictator in a crisis, he resigned and returned to his farm when the danger was past. 

1. A food plant with starchy roots and succulent leaves. 

1. Tebureimoa, Nantemat’ by name and a carpenter to trade was the last of four brothers who had been kings of Butaritari before him. He earned the nick-name ’Mr Corpse’ because of his bloody service as hatchetman to his oldest brother, the tyrant Nakaeia. He proved to be a weak and guilt-ridden figure when finally installed as king in his own right. 

1. Copra is dried coconut kernel from which coconut-oil could be extracted for use in food fats, soap, detergents and candles. Sold by weight, it is heavier when moist. 

1. A toddy-palm is a coconut or other palm, the juice of which can be fermented to make toddy.

1. King of Hawaii, whom Stevenson got to know well during the six month stay at Waikiki.

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