Island nights' entertainments
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ISLAND NIGHTS'
ENTERTAINMENTS
CONSISTING OF
THE BEACH OF FALESÁ
THE BOTTLE IMP
THE ISLE OF VOICES
BY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1901
Copyright, 1892, 1893, By
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
TO
THOSE OLD SHIPMATES AMONG THE ISLANDS
CONTENTS
| THE BEACH OF FALESÁ: BEING THE NARRATIVE OF A SOUTH-SEA TRADER | |
| PAGE | |
| 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 |