Produced by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XVIII _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._ _This is No._ ....... [Illustration: A MAP TO ILLUSTRATE R. L. STEVENSON'S LIFE IN THE SOUTH SEAS] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON VOLUME EIGHTEEN LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS IN THE SOUTH SEAS PAGE Editorial Note ix PART I.--THE MARQUESAS CHAPTER I. An Island Landfall 5 II. Making Friends 12 III. The Maroon 21 IV. Death 28 V. Depopulation 36 VI. Chiefs and Tapus 44 VII. Hatiheu 53 VIII. The Port of Entry 61 IX. The House of Temoana 69 X. A Portrait and a Story 77 XI. Long-Pig--a Cannibal High Place 85 XII. The Story of a Plantation 95 XIII. Characters 105 XIV. In a Cannibal Valley 112 XV. The Two Chiefs of Atuona 119 PART II.--THE PAUMOTUS I. The Dangerous Archipelago--Atolls at a Distance 129 II. Fakarava: an Atoll at Hand 137 III. A House To Let in a Low Island 146 IV. Traits and Sects in the Paumotus 155 V. A Paumotuan Funeral 165 VI. Graveyard Stories 170 PART III.--THE EIGHT ISLANDS I. The Kona Coast 187 II. A Ride in the Forest 197 III. The City of Refuge 203 IV. Kaahumanu 209 V. The Lepers of Kona 215 PART IV.--THE GILBERTS I. Butaritari 223 II. The Four Brothers 229 III. Around Our House 237