TAHITI
by Marau Taaroa & Henry Adams
MEMOIRS OF
ARII TAIMAI E
MARAMA OF EIMEO
TERIIRERE OF TOOARAI
TERIINUI OF TAHITI
TAURAATUA I AMO
PARIS
1901
Captain Cook's Map of Tahiti
"...we are a clan, and Teva is our clan name..."
"...Hototu was too fond of dogs..."
"...the woman was hardly to blame ..."
Table I: Descendants of Taurua i Hitiaa
"...on the subject of family poetry..."
Table II: Aromaiterai-Tuiterai
"...she could build a pyramid..."
Table III: Ahurai-Papara
"...proof that Rousseau was right..."
"...The land where the idiot was punished..."
"...Cook's first voyage..."
Table IV: Ahurai-Punaauia
"...Vanaa had compared him with a pig..."
Table V: Pomare
"...the usual fate of chiefesses ..."
Table VI: Ahurai-Nuurua
"...the War of the Mutineers of the Bounty..."
Table VII: Ariipaea and Ariifaataia
"...Ariipaea's betrayal of his trust..."
"...not calculated to make the missionaries popular..."
"...every atrocity known to the island code..."
"...a horrid scene of ruin and devastation..."
"...follow the kites till they fell..."
"...I naturally became a petted child..."
"...how I interposed, as chiefess, to bring about peace..."
On
Tahiti - The Memoirs of Arii Taimai
The Salmon Family: Marau second on left; Arii Taimai at far right
HTML edition by
Ray Davis
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