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Charles Bernard Nordhoff
The Dark River
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338071743
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by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
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Chapter I
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At the southeastern extremity of the island of Tahiti, and connected with it by a narrow isthmus, lies the peninsula of Taiarapu, where ancient weathered mountains, green to the topmost pinnacles, rise abruptly from the sea, rank beyond rank, until they are lost to view in shrouds of rain. On the northern side, a grass-grown road, which branches from the main thoroughfare at the isthmus, follows the sunlit coastal land through groves of coconut palms, breadfruit and mango trees, until it reaches the village of Tautira, the farthest settlement on that side of the island. Beyond this village, and extending for a distance of nearly twenty miles, lies a region known as the Fenua Aaiheré,--the Land of Forests,--long since depopulated, and bearing to-day scarcely a sign of human habitation.