Part 1 The Marquesas Chapter 12 The Story of a Plantation

TAAHAUKU, on the south-westerly coast of the island of Hiva-oa — Tahuku, say the slovenly whites — may be called the port of Atuona. It is a narrow and small anchorage, set between low cliffy points, and opening above upon a woody valley: a little French fort, now disused and deserted, overhangs the valley and the inlet. Atuona itself