Part 3 The Gilberts Chapter 5

A Tale of a Tapu — ContinuedTUESDAY, JULY 16. — It rained in the night, sudden and loud, in Gilbert Island fashion. Before the day, the crowing of a cock aroused me and I wandered in the compound and along the street. The squall was blown by, the moon shone with incomparable lustre, the air lay dead as in a room, and yet all the isle