ABSTRACT
“The Pomotous islands—Isles of the Night, or subject islands—which we now call Tuamotous—far off Isles—by the desire of their chiefs, are still partly inhabited, as you know, by poor cannibals. They were the last to be peopled of all our island groups. They were formerly guarded by the water-fiends, who beat the sea so hard with their great albatross-wings that no one could get near them. But the spirits were beaten and destroyed very long ago by the god Taaroa.
