Omoo Excerpt: ...out into the moonlight, and had a nocturnal picnic. CHAPTER XLII. MOTOO-OTOO A TAHITIAN CASUIST THE Pill Box was sometimes employed for other purposes than that described in the last chapter. We sometimes went a-pleasuring in it. Right in the middle of Papeetee harbour is a bright, green island, one circular grove of waving palms, and scarcely a hundred yards across. It is of coral formation; and all round, for many rods out, the bay is so shallow that you might wade anywhere. Down in these waters, as transparent as air, you see coral plants of every hue and shape imaginable: |
