CHAPTER XIII.

The royal progress round Tahiti—Life day by day—_Himènes_—A beautiful shore—Manufacture of arrowroot flowers—A deserted cotton plantation—Tahitian dancing—The Areois—Vanilla plantations—Fort of Taravao, 182

The royal progress round Tahiti (_continued_)—French fort at Taravou—The peninsula—Life in bird-cage houses—Torchlight procession—Return to Papeete, 198