Excerpt from In the South Seas: Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands; In the Course of Two Cruises, on the Yacht 'Casco' (1888) And the Schooner 'Equator' (1889) Under the eastern shore, our schooner, now bereft of any breeze, continued to creep in: the smart creature, when once under way, appearing motive in herself. From close aboard arose the bleating of young lambs; a bird sang in the hillside the scent of the land and of a hundred fruits or flowers flowed forth to meet us and, presently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.