. A lady's cruise in a French man-of-war. THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFT OF Commodore Byron McCandless ^i J - A LADYS CRUISE FEENCH MAN-OF-WAR The morning wjiteh was eoiiic ; tlie vessel layHer course, and gently made her liquid way ;Tlie cloven liillow flashed from off her prowIn furrows formed, by that majestic plough. Huzza for Otaheite ! was the cry. The gentle island and the genial soil, The friendly heai-ts, the feasts without a toil, The courteous manners, but from nature caught, Tlie weaUh unlioarded, and the love unbought. The soil where every cottage sho
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. A lady's cruise in a French man-of-war. THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFT OF Commodore Byron McCandless ^i J - A LADYS CRUISE FEENCH MAN-OF-WAR The morning wjiteh was eoiiic ; tlie vessel layHer course, and gently made her liquid way ;Tlie cloven liillow flashed from off her prowIn furrows formed, by that majestic plough. Huzza for Otaheite ! was the cry. The gentle island and the genial soil, The friendly heai-ts, the feasts without a toil, The courteous manners, but from nature caught, Tlie weaUh unlioarded, and the love unbought. The soil where every cottage showed a home.The sea-spread net, the lightly launched canoe, Which stemmed the studded archipelagoOer whose blue bosom rose the stiirry isles.And sweetly now, those untaught melodiesBrol<e tlie luxurious silence of the skies, The sweet siesta of a summer day.The tropic afternoon of Toobonai, When every flower was bloom, and air was Vialm, Ami the first breath began to stir the palm. —The Island: Lord Byron.. A LADYS CEUISE FRENCH MAN-OF-WAR BY C. F. GOEDO:^ CUMMIKa AUTHOR OF at HOME IN FIJI, FROM THE HEBRIDES TOTHE HIMALAYAS, ETC. NEW EDITION, COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME WITH MAP AND ILLUSTHATIONS WILLIAM BLACKWOOD A^^I) SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXII All Rights reserved INTEODUCTION. When, in the spring of 1875, Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordonwas appointed first Governor of Fiji, I had the good fortuneto be invited to form one of the party who accompaniedLady Gordon to that far country. Two years shpped away, brimful of interest, and eachmonth made me feel more At Home in Fiji, more fascinatedwith its lovely scenery, more content to linger among itsisles. Then a counter-charm was brought to bear upon the spellwhich held me thus entranced. The chief magician appearedin the guise of a high ecclesiastic of the Eoman Church, clothed in purple, and wearing the mystic ring and cross ofamethyst; while his coadjutor, a French gentleman of thenoble old school, was the commander of a large F